Bentley Family History
Bentley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places, the
chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire,
Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and
South Yorkshire. The place name is from Old English beonet
‘bent grass’ + leah ‘woodland clearing’.Probably
an Americanized spelling of Swiss Bandle or Bandli or
German Bentele, all short forms of the medieval personal name
Pantaleon (see Pantaleo).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bentley
Name Distribution of Bentley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bentley families
 277 - 552  93 - 276 |
 1 - 92  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bentley families
|
1,823 - 3,644 608 - 1,822 |
1 - 607 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bentley families
|
13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bentley Family Origin
Bentley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bentley
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Bentley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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