Nesbitt Family History
- Nesbitt Name Meaning
- Scottish (Borders), northern English, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places in the Border region of Scotland called Nesbit(t) or Nisbit, named in northern Middle English with nese ‘nose’ + bit ‘mouthful’, ‘piece of ground’ (Old English bita) or bit ‘bend’ (Old English byht, modern bight). The place names refer either to a piece of raised land sticking up like a nose, or to a bend in a river shaped like a nose.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 478,752 Historical Documents with Nesbitt on Ancestry
- 139,101 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 85,641 Census and Voter Lists
- 17,702 Military Records
- 13,631 Immigration Records
- 222,677 Member Trees
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Number of Nesbitt families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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