Rust Family History
Rust Name Meaning
Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent elm tree, Rust (Old High German ruost), or in northern Germany for someone who lived by a resting place or halt along a route, from Middle Low German ruste ‘rest’.English (chiefly East Anglia) and Scottish: nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion, from Old English rust ‘rust’ (from a Germanic root meaning ‘red’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rust
Name Distribution of Rust Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rust families
 186 - 369  63 - 185 |
 1 - 62  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rust families
|
29 - 56 10 - 28 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rust census records
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Rust Family Origin
Rust Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Rust families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rust Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Rust families immigrated
to Australia.
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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 Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Rust Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rust census records
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Military Service by Rust
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