Turtle Family History
Turtle Name Meaning
variant of Turkel.nickname for a mild and
gentle or affectionate person, from Middle English turtel
‘turtle dove’.nickname for a crippled or deformed person, from
Old French tourtel, a diminutive of tourt ‘crooked’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Turtle
Name Distribution of Turtle Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Turtle families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Turtle families
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51 - 99 18 - 50 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Turtle families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Turtle census records
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Turtle Family Origin
Turtle Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Turtle
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Turtle Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Turtle census records
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Turtle Civil War Service Records
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