Portmann Family History
- Portmann Name Meaning
- North German: occupational name for a gatekeeper, from Middle Low German port(e) ‘gate’ (from Latin porta) + man ‘man’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near the gates of a fortified town. Compare Porter.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,974 Historical Documents with Portmann on Ancestry
- 7,682 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 873 Census and Voter Lists
- 446 Military Records
- 1,047 Immigration Records
- 3,926 Member Trees
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Number of Portmann families
 3 - 2  2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Portmann 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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