Petta Family History
- Petta Name Meaning
- most probably of Albanian origin, from petë ‘dented’, ‘battered’. possibly from a pet form of a female personal name such as Filippa, Jacopa, etc. from the Germanic personal name Peta, Patta.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,970 Historical Documents with Petta on Ancestry
- 6,810 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,026 Census and Voter Lists
- 712 Military Records
- 1,826 Immigration Records
- 4,596 Member Trees
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Number of Petta families
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 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Petta families
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1 1 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Petta 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
Petta census records
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