Fentress Family History
Fentress Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Ventress, itself a variant
of Venters, a nickname for a daring person, from Middle English
aventurous ‘bold’, ‘venturesome’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fentress
Name Distribution of Fentress Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fentress families
 55 - 108  19 - 54 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fentress families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fentress census records
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Fentress Family Origin
Fentress Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Fentress
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Fentress Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Fentress census records
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Fentress Civil War Service Records
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