Kennett Family History
- Kennett Name Meaning
- English: habitational name for someone from places so named in Wiltshire and Cambridgeshire. Both are named from the rivers on which they stand: the Kennet in Wiltshire and Kennett in Kent, an old British or Celtic name of uncertain origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 229,653 Historical Documents with Kennett on Ancestry
- 79,456 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 61,028 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,290 Military Records
- 4,594 Immigration Records
- 78,285 Member Trees
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Number of Kennett families
 341 - 679  114 - 340 |
 1 - 113  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kennett families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kennett 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
Kennett census records
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