Mora Family History
- Mora Name Meaning
- Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan (Móra): habitational name from any of the places named Mora, in some cases from mora ‘mulberry’ (Late Latin mora, originally the plural of classical Latin morum). Occitan and Catalan (Morà): from Morandus, an old personal name of uncertain derivation and meaning. Italian: topographic name from Old Italian mora ‘pile of stones’. Hungarian (Móra): from a pet form of the personal name Móricz, Hungarian form of Morris. Czech and Polish: from a short form of a personal name, e.g. Czech Mauric, Polish Maurycy, derived from Latin Mauritius (see Morris). Polish: possibly a nickname from mora ‘sickness’, ‘plague’. Czech: possibly a nickname from mora ‘vampire’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 858,229 Historical Documents with Mora on Ancestry
- 718,580 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 50,829 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,836 Military Records
- 25,654 Immigration Records
- 56,330 Member Trees
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Number of Mora families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mora families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Mora 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
Mora census records
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