Loft Family History
- Loft Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English lofte ‘upper chamber’, ‘attic’, possibly bestowed on a household servant who worked in an upper chamber, or used in the same sense as Loftus. Danish: habitational name from a place called Loft.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 91,379 Historical Documents with Loft on Ancestry
- 33,367 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 25,550 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,721 Military Records
- 4,044 Immigration Records
- 25,697 Member Trees
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Number of Loft families
 98 - 193  33 - 97 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Loft families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Loft 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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