Dust Family History
- Dust Name Meaning
- English: from Old English dust ‘dust’, applied as a nickname, possibly for someone with a dusty complexion or hair (as, for example, a miller), or for a worthless person. North German: possibly a Westphalian habitational name from a farm named with dost ‘bush’, ‘brush’. However, the word also means ‘fine dust’, ‘flour’ and may have been applied as an occupational nickname for a miller. Compare 1.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 44,418 Historical Documents with Dust on Ancestry
- 17,633 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,306 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,647 Military Records
- 664 Immigration Records
- 15,168 Member Trees
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Number of Dust families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dust 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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