Peth Family History
- Peth Name Meaning
- German: of uncertain origin; possibly from a short form of a personal name formed with Germanic bad- ‘fight’, ‘battle’ or berht ‘bright’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,977 Historical Documents with Peth on Ancestry
- 8,405 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,304 Census and Voter Lists
- 873 Military Records
- 683 Immigration Records
- 4,712 Member Trees
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Number of Peth families
 16 - 30  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Peth 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
Peth census records
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