Twist Family History
Twist Name Meaning
probably a variant of
Twiss, or possibly in a few cases from Twist, a minor place in
Devon, or Twist Wood in Brede, Sussex, both named from Old English
twist, Middle English twist ‘something twisted or
forked’.possibly a metonymic occupational name for someone in the
cotton-spinning industry, whose responsibility was to combine threads
into a strong cord, a sense of twist recorded from the 16th
century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Twist
Name Distribution of Twist Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Twist families
 18 - 33  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Twist families
|
340 - 678 114 - 339 |
1 - 113 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Twist families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Twist census records
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Twist Family Origin
Twist Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Twist
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Twist Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Twist census records
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Twist Civil War Service Records
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