Roll Family History
- Roll Name Meaning
- German: from Middle High German rolle, rulle ‘roll’, ‘list’, possibly applied as a metonymic occupational name for a scribe. German: from a short form of the personal names Rudolf or Roland. German: habitational name for someone from either of two places named Rolle, in Westphalia and Pomerania. English: variant of Rollo or Rolf.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 340,135 Historical Documents with Roll on Ancestry
- 139,754 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 43,491 Census and Voter Lists
- 34,618 Military Records
- 7,166 Immigration Records
- 115,106 Member Trees
Ready to discover your family story?
Simply start with yourself and we'll do the searching for you.
Number of Roll families
 45 - 88  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Roll families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Roll census records
You can see how Roll 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.
from the New York Passengers List
Click on a place to view Roll 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 Roll 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 the Canadian Passenger Lists
Click on a circle in the chart to view Roll immigration records
You can find out when most of the Roll families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Roll census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Roll ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Rolls fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
×