Sales Family History
Sales Name Meaning
English: from Middle English salwes ‘sallows’, a
topographic name for someone who lived by a group of sallow trees (see
Sale 2).Catalan and Asturian-Leonese: a habitational name
from any of the places called Sales, like Sales de Llierca (Catalonia)
or Sales (Asturies), from the plural of Sala 1. This name is
specially common in Catalonia.Portuguese: habitational name
from a place that is probably so called from a Germanic personal name
of uncertain form and derivation.Portuguese: religious byname
adopted since the 17th century in honor of St. Francis of Sales
(1567–1622), who was born at the Château de Sales in
Savoy.French (Salès): habitational name from places named
Salès in Cantal and Tarn.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sales
Name Distribution of Sales Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sales families
 286 - 570  96 - 285 |
 1 - 95  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sales families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sales census records
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Sales Family Origin
Sales Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sales Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Sales families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sales Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sales census records
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Military Service by Sales
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