Constable Family History
- Constable Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for the law-enforcement officer of a parish, from Middle English, Old French conestable, cunestable, from Late Latin comes stabuli ‘officer of the stable’. The title was also borne by various other officials during the Middle Ages, including the chief officer of the household (and army) of a medieval ruler, and this may in some cases be the source of the surname. Americanized spelling of Dutch Constapel, an occupational name for the chief gunner aboard a ship or in the garrison of a fort.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,224,994 Historical Documents with Constable on Ancestry
- 138,791 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 110,678 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,462 Military Records
- 7,904 Immigration Records
- 959,159 Member Trees
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Number of Constable families
 292 - 582  98 - 291 |
 1 - 97  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Constable families
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56 - 110 19 - 55 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Constable 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
Constable census records
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