Nesmith Family History
- Nesmith Name Meaning
- Scottish and English: occupational name for a maker of knives or of nails, from Middle English knyf ‘knife’ or nayl ‘nail’ + smith (see Smith).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 141,824 Historical Documents with Nesmith on Ancestry
- 35,469 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 17,513 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,226 Military Records
- 1,084 Immigration Records
- 81,532 Member Trees
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Number of Nesmith families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nesmith families
|
6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Nesmith census records
You can see how Nesmith families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
- Scotland (14)
- Ireland (6)
- England (3)
- Great Britain (2)
- Blackhuson,United States of America (1)
- Canada (1)
from the New York Passengers List
Click on a place to view Nesmith immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Nesmith families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Nesmith census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Nesmith ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Nesmiths fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
×