Sable Family History
Sable Name Meaning
French: topographic name for someone who lived in a sandy
place, from sable ‘sand’.French (Sablé):
habitational name from a place so called in Sarthe.Dutch
and North German: metonymic occupational name for a furrier, from
sabel ‘sable’, ‘black fur’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sable
Name Distribution of Sable Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sable families
 20 - 37  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sable families
|
15 - 28 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sable census records
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Sable Family Origin
Sable Immigration Information
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You can find out when most of the Sable families immigrated
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sable
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
your family.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Sable Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sable census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Sable ancestors, such as occupation.
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Sable Civil War Service Records
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