Combest Family History
- Combest Name Meaning
- Altered spelling of German Kombst or Gumpost, from Middle High German kumpost ‘bottled fruit or vegetables’, ‘sauerkraut’ (from Latin compositum); the term further denoted a particular tax and it is probably from this sense that the surname arose.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 45,494 Historical Documents with Combest on Ancestry
- 7,613 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,588 Census and Voter Lists
- 980 Military Records
- 116 Immigration Records
- 33,197 Member Trees
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Number of Combest families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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