Court Family History
- Court Name Meaning
- English and French: topographic name from Middle English, Old French court(e), curt ‘court’ (Latin cohors, genitive cohortis, ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’). This word was used primarily with reference to the residence of the lord of a manor, and the surname is usually an occupational name for someone employed at a manorial court. English: nickname from Old French, Middle English curt ‘short’, ‘small’ (Latin curtus ‘curtailed’, ‘truncated’, ‘cut short’, ‘broken off’). Irish: reduced form of McCourt.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 691,117 Historical Documents with Court on Ancestry
- 275,410 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 144,772 Census and Voter Lists
- 49,265 Military Records
- 13,813 Immigration Records
- 207,857 Member Trees
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Number of Court families
 367 - 731  123 - 366 |
 1 - 122  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Court families
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22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Court 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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