Laporte Family History
Laporte Name Meaning
French: topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a
fortified town (and often was in charge of them; thus in part a
metonymic occupational name), from Old French porte ‘gateway’,
‘entrance’ (from Latin porta, ‘door’, ‘entrance’), with the
definite article la. In French Canada it is a secondary
surname, which has also been used alone since 1670.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Laporte
Name Distribution of Laporte Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Laporte families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Laporte census records
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Laporte Family Origin
Laporte Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Laporte Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Laporte
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