Castano Family History
- Castano Name Meaning
- Spanish and Galician (Castaño): from castaño ‘chestnut (tree)’ (Latin castanea), hence a topographic name for someone who lived by such a tree or a habitational name from any of numerous places named with this word. Southern Italian: from medieval Greek kastanon ‘chestnut’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a conspicuous chestnut tree, or a nickname for someone with chestnut-colored hair.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 45,926 Historical Documents with Castano on Ancestry
- 30,915 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,796 Census and Voter Lists
- 612 Military Records
- 5,377 Immigration Records
- 4,226 Member Trees
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Number of Castano families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Castano 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
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