Kettering Family History
Kettering Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire,
recorded in Domesday Book as Cateringe, probably from an
unattested Old English personal name Cytra + -ingas, a
suffix denoting ‘family or followers of’. 1881 British census has 3,
UK 1.Possibly an altered spelling of German
Ketterling.
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Name Distribution of Kettering Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kettering families
 27 - 52  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kettering families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Kettering last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kettering census records
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Kettering Family Origin
Kettering Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Kettering
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Kettering Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Kettering census records
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