Arras Family History
- Arras Name Meaning
- English and French: habitational name from the city of Arras in Artois, northern France, or one of the other places in France so named. Scottish: habitational name from Airhouse, a locality in Channelkirk, Berwickshire. English: habitational name from a place called Arras in East Yorkshire, earlier spelled Erghes, from the plural of Old Norse erg ‘hut’, ‘shelter’. German: metonymic occupational name for a cloth merchant, from a type of woolen cloth for which the city of Arras in Flanders was famous in the Middle Ages. This name is also established in Mexico.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 62,698 Historical Documents with Arras on Ancestry
- 23,325 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,857 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,563 Military Records
- 1,387 Immigration Records
- 31,566 Member Trees
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Number of Arras families
 13 - 24  5 - 12 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Arras families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Arras families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Arras census records
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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