Ventura Family History
Ventura Name Meaning
Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): from
a medieval personal name, a short form of Bonaventura or
Buenaventura, meaning ‘good fortune’, or, in the case of the
Italian name, a nickname from ventura ‘fortune’, ‘luck’. The
name Bonaventura was borne in honor of a saint (1221–74) who
was given this nickname by St. Francis of Assisi when he cured him
miraculously as a child.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ventura
Name Distribution of Ventura Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ventura families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ventura families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ventura census records
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Ventura Family Origin
Ventura Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ventura Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ventura census records
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Military Service by Ventura
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