Deforest Family History
Deforest Name Meaning
French and Dutch: habitational name, with the preposition de
‘from’, for someone from a place named Forest, for example in Nord and
Somme. The place name is derived from Old French forest
‘forest’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Deforest Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Deforest families
 64 - 125  22 - 63 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Deforest census records
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Deforest Family Origin
Deforest Immigration Information
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Deforest Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Deforest census records
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