Arbuthnot Family History
- Arbuthnot Name Meaning
- Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from a place called Arbuthnott, south of Aberdeen, earlier Aberbuthnot, a Pictish place name from aber ‘confluence’ + the stream name Buadhnat (the Gaelic form) meaning ‘virtuous’ or ‘healing’, i.e. the stream was regarded as holy, with healing properties.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 114,760 Historical Documents with Arbuthnot on Ancestry
- 13,026 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,142 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,635 Military Records
- 2,326 Immigration Records
- 84,631 Member Trees
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Number of Arbuthnot families
 19 - 35  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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