Mole Family History
Mole Name Meaning
English: nickname for someone supposedly resembling a mole (the
burrowing mammal), Middle English mol(le) (from Dutch or Low
German mol), for example in having poor eyesight.English:
nickname for someone with a prominent mole or blemish on the face,
from Middle English mole (Old English mal).English: from an Old English masculine personal name, Moll.English: from Old Norse moli ‘crumb’, ‘grain’,
possibly a nickname for a small man.French: metonymic
occupational name for a knife grinder or a maker of whetstones, from a
variant of meule ‘whetstone’, ‘grindstone’, ‘millstone’.Italian: variant of Mule.Slovenian: probably a
nickname for a extremely religious man, from mole ‘zealot’, a
derivative of moliti ‘to pray’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mole
Name Distribution of Mole Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mole families
 160 - 318  54 - 159 |
 1 - 53  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mole families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mole census records
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Mole Family Origin
Mole Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mole Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mole census records
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Military Service by Mole
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