Belt Family History
- Belt Name Meaning
- English and North German: metonymic occupational name for a leather belt or strap maker, from Middle English belt(e), Middle Low German balt. German: from a short form of the Germanic personal name Baldher (see Belter). North German: habitational name from a place called Beelte (see Belter 2).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 470,754 Historical Documents with Belt on Ancestry
- 103,651 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 48,845 Census and Voter Lists
- 14,154 Military Records
- 4,145 Immigration Records
- 299,959 Member Trees
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Number of Belt families
 77 - 151  26 - 76 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Belt families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Belt census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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