Sprott Family History
- Sprott Name Meaning
- Scottish and northern English: from the Old English personal name Sprot, of uncertain origin. It may be derived from Old English sprot ‘sprout’, ‘young shoot’. Northern Irish (County Down): variant of Spratt. German: probably a habitational name from places named Sprotte (Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt), Sprotta (Silesia).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 54,275 Historical Documents with Sprott on Ancestry
- 17,111 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,223 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,984 Military Records
- 2,654 Immigration Records
- 18,303 Member Trees
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Number of Sprott families
 18 - 33  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sprott families
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29 - 56 10 - 28 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sprott 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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