Court Family History
Court Name Meaning
English and French: topographic name from Middle English, Old
French court(e), curt ‘court’ (Latin cohors,
genitive cohortis, ‘yard’, ‘enclosure’). This word was used
primarily with reference to the residence of the lord of a manor, and
the surname is usually an occupational name for someone employed at a
manorial court.English: nickname from Old French, Middle English
curt ‘short’, ‘small’ (Latin curtus ‘curtailed’,
‘truncated’, ‘cut short’, ‘broken off’).Irish: reduced
form of McCourt.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Court Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Court families
 36 - 69  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Court families
|
367 - 731 123 - 366 |
1 - 122 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Court families
|
22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Court Family Origin
Court Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Court
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Court Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Court census records
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