Banz Family History
- Banz Name Meaning
- habitational name from a place in Franconia so named, or a topographic name from Old High German banz, which denotes the administrative area of a tribe and is probably the origin of the place name. In Bavaria, from Middle High German banz, denoting a barrel or drinking vessel which was used by reapers in the fields, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for a farm laborer or a maker of such vessels.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,953 Historical Documents with Banz on Ancestry
- 15,162 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,841 Census and Voter Lists
- 539 Military Records
- 695 Immigration Records
- 2,716 Member Trees
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Number of Banz families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Banz census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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