Dorst Family History
- Dorst Name Meaning
- topographic name for someone who lived on dry, hard ground, from dörr ‘dry’, or a habitational name from places named Dorst near Cologne or Helmstedt or Dorste in the Harz Mountains. nickname from Middle Low German dorst ‘boldness’, ‘cunning’. Compare Durst. metathesized variant of Droste.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 77,920 Historical Documents with Dorst on Ancestry
- 41,694 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,312 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,768 Military Records
- 1,101 Immigration Records
- 21,045 Member Trees
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Number of Dorst families
 3 - 3  2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dorst 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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