Sales Family History
- Sales Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English salwes ‘sallows’, a topographic name for someone who lived by a group of sallow trees (see Sale 2). Catalan and Asturian-Leonese: a habitational name from any of the places called Sales, like Sales de Llierca (Catalonia) or Sales (Asturies), from the plural of Sala 1. This name is specially common in Catalonia. Portuguese: habitational name from a place that is probably so called from a Germanic personal name of uncertain form and derivation. Portuguese: religious byname adopted since the 17th century in honor of St. Francis of Sales (1567–1622), who was born at the Château de Sales in Savoy. French (Salès): habitational name from places named Salès in Cantal and Tarn.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 406,112 Historical Documents with Sales on Ancestry
- 189,417 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 90,674 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,857 Military Records
- 9,746 Immigration Records
- 102,418 Member Trees
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Number of Sales families
 286 - 570  96 - 285 |
 1 - 95  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sales families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sales 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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