Folds Family History
- Folds Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pen for animals, or an occupational name for someone who worked in one, from Middle English fold ‘pen’, ‘enclosure’ (Old English falod, fald).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 53,487 Historical Documents with Folds on Ancestry
- 15,592 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,509 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,564 Military Records
- 497 Immigration Records
- 27,325 Member Trees
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Number of Folds families
 35 - 68  12 - 34 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Folds census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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