Tennant Family History
Tennant Name Meaning
Scottish and English: status name for a farmer who held his land
from an overlord by obligations of rent or service, from Old French,
Middle English tenant (present participle of Old French
tenir ‘to hold’, Latin tenere). This was the normal
situation for landholders in the Middle Ages, since in the feudal
system all land belonged ultimately to the king and use of it was
granted in return for financial or military support.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Tennant Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tennant families
 233 - 463  78 - 232 |
 1 - 77  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tennant families
|
324 - 645 109 - 323 |
1 - 108 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Tennant Family Origin
Tennant Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Tennant Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Tennant Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Tennant census records
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Military Service by Tennant
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