Bessent Family History
- Bessent Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English besant, the name of a gold coin (via Old French from Latin (nummus) byzantius, so called because it was first minted at Byzantium). The surname arose as a metonymic occupational name for a minter or moneyer or else as a nickname for a man who was considered to be rich or miserly.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 32,107 Historical Documents with Bessent on Ancestry
- 7,834 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,356 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,189 Military Records
- 255 Immigration Records
- 17,473 Member Trees
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Number of Bessent families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bessent families
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17 - 32 6 - 16 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bessent census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bessent census records
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- All Bessent
- 21
- Confederate
- 20
- Union
- 1
from the Civil War Service Records
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