Tuft Family History
- Tuft Name Meaning
- English (Midlands): possibly a topographical name from Middle English tufte, tuffe ‘clump of trees or bushes’. This is an element of minor place names and field names in various counties. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named, from Old Norse tupt ‘site’, ‘lot’. Possibly an altered spelling of South German Duft, from a topographic name meaning ‘swamp’, ‘moor’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 32,875 Historical Documents with Tuft on Ancestry
- 13,377 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,372 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,459 Military Records
- 969 Immigration Records
- 9,698 Member Trees
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Number of Tuft families
 39 - 75  14 - 38 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tuft census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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