Bolt Family History
- Bolt Name Meaning
- English (chiefly West Country): from Middle English bolt ‘bolt’, ‘bar’ (Old English bolt ‘arrow’). In part this may have originated as a nickname or byname for a short but powerfully built person, in part as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bolts. Danish: variant of Boldt. Variant of Bold. German: from a short form of the personal names Baldwin or Reinbold.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 443,269 Historical Documents with Bolt on Ancestry
- 155,462 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 80,773 Census and Voter Lists
- 14,302 Military Records
- 7,325 Immigration Records
- 185,407 Member Trees
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Number of Bolt families
 332 - 661  111 - 331 |
 1 - 110  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bolt families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bolt 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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