Fountain Family History
Fountain Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a spring or
well, from Old French fontane, Middle English fontayne
‘fountain’; in some cases the name may have arisen from French
habitational names (Fontaine, Fonteyne,
Lafontaine) of the same derivation.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fountain
Name Distribution of Fountain Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fountain families
 133 - 264  45 - 132 |
 1 - 44  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fountain families
|
210 - 417 71 - 209 |
1 - 70 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fountain families
|
11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fountain census records
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Fountain Family Origin
Fountain Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Fountain
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Fountain Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Fountain census records
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