Portella Family History
- Portella Name Meaning
- Catalan: habitational name from Portella in Lleida or La Portella in Barcelona or Tarragona, so named from a diminutive of porta ‘gate’. Italian: from Sicilian purtedda ‘portal’, ‘door’, ‘pass’, presumably applied as a topograhic name or as a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,729 Historical Documents with Portella on Ancestry
- 6,932 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 832 Census and Voter Lists
- 316 Military Records
- 987 Immigration Records
- 662 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Portella census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Portella census records
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