Mori Family History
Mori Name Meaning
Japanese: variously written, but most often with a character
meaning ‘forest’, and denoting the sacred grove around a Shinto
shrine. The character used to list the name in the Shinsen
shojiroku means ‘guard’ or ‘keeper’. The name is mostly found in
west-central Japan, the island of Shikoku, and in the Ryukyu
Islands. Another name, properly Romanized as Mori, is
written phonetically with the characters for ‘hair’ and ‘advantage’,
but bearers of this name are also of the original Mori family. There
were several daimyo families named Mori, the greatest
originating in Aki (now part of Hiroshima prefecture). From their base
in Choshu (Nagato: now part of Yamaguchi prefecture), they ruled
much of western Honshu in the 16th century, until restricted by
Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu to Choshu.Italian:
patronymic form of Moro.German (Möri): from a
pet form of the personal name Morhart (see Morath).Hungarian (Móri): habitational name for someone
from a place called Mór in Fejér county of Hungary.Hungarian: patronymic from the personal name Mór, from
Latin Maurus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mori
Name Distribution of Mori Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mori families
 20 - 38  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mori families
|
11 - 20 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mori census records
You can see how Mori families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Mori Family Origin
Mori Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Mori families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mori Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mori census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Mori ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Mori
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