Torres Family History
Torres Name Meaning
Galician, Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic):
habitational name from any of the numerous places named Torres, all
named with the plural of torre ‘tower’ (see Torre).Italian: habitational name from Torres in Belluno or
Porto Torres in Sassari. In southern Italy the surname is sometimes a
borrowing from Spanish (see 1).Dutch: from a short form of
Victoris, from the Latin personal name Victorius.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Torres
Name Distribution of Torres Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Torres families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Torres Family Origin
Torres Emigration Information (US)
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Torres Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Torres census records
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