Lint Family History
- Lint Name Meaning
- English: metonymic occupational name for a dresser of flax, from Middle English lynet, lynt ‘flax’. Dutch: from a short form of a Germanic name formed with lind (see Linde 1). Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a linen weaver or merchant.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 122,261 Historical Documents with Lint on Ancestry
- 38,336 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,504 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,069 Military Records
- 1,403 Immigration Records
- 65,949 Member Trees
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Number of Lint families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lint families
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18 - 33 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Lint census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Lint census records
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