Ports Family History
Ports Name Meaning
Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Portz, variant of Porz, a habitational name from a town so named near Cologne. from ExG to pwh: "or move all this [sense 1] to PORTZ.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ports Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ports families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ports families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ports census records
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Ports Family Origin
Ports Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Ports
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Ports Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Ports census records
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Ports Civil War Service Records
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