Bos Family History
- Bos Name Meaning
- Reduced form of Dutch Van den Bos, a variant of the topographic name Vandenbosch. South German and French: from the Germanic personal name Boso (see Boos). French (central France): variant of Bois. Hungarian (Bos): from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bo. Hungarian: habitational name for someone from a place called Bos, formerly in Pozsony county, Hungary, now part of Slovakia. Hungarian (Bós): from the old Magyar secular name Bós. Polish (Bos): from a pet form of the personal names Boleslaw or Boguslaw.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 602,502 Historical Documents with Bos on Ancestry
- 442,566 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,109 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,943 Military Records
- 12,344 Immigration Records
- 119,540 Member Trees
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Number of Bos families
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 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bos families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bos census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Bos census records
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