Tonn Family History
- Tonn Name Meaning
- German: metonymic occupational name for a cooper, from Middle Low German, Middle High German tunne, tonne ‘vat’, ‘barrel’, ‘cask’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 48,801 Historical Documents with Tonn on Ancestry
- 23,382 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,566 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,785 Military Records
- 1,780 Immigration Records
- 12,288 Member Trees
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Number of Tonn families
 7 - 12  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tonn families
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1 1 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Tonn 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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You can find out when most of the Tonn families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Tonn census records
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