Porteous Family History
Porteous Name Meaning
Scottish: probably a topographic name for someone who lived in the
lodge at the entrance to a manor house, from Middle English
port ‘gateway’, ‘entrance’ + hous ‘house’, or an
occupational name with similar meaning, from Latin portarius
‘porter’. Alternatively, as suggested by Reaney, it may be from
Anglo-Norman French porte-hors ‘portable prayerbook’ (i.e. a
book of hours), hence a metonymic occupational name for a scribe
employed in writing such books. The surname is also established in
Ireland, the earliest record of its presence there being dated 1563.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Porteous Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Porteous families
 91 - 180  31 - 90 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Porteous families
|
249 - 496 84 - 248 |
1 - 83 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Porteous Family Origin
Porteous Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Porteous Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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