Mothes Surname History

Origins Available:
France

Early Origins of the Mothes family

The surname Mothes was first found in Lorraine where this distinguished family held a family seat, and were members of the aristocracy of that region from the year 1534.

Early History of the Mothes family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Mothes research. Another 77 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1624, 1648, 1665, 1669, 1670, 1672, 1679, 1685, 1695, 1703, 1717 and 1731 are included under the topic Early Mothes History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Mothes Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: De Lamoth, Lamoth, LaMoth, LaMothe, Lamoth, Lamothe, Mothe and many more.

Early Notables of the Mothes family

Notable in the family name was Baron Lamoth of Languedoc; Pierre Lambert de la Motte, MEP (1624-1679), a French bishop, a founding member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and became a missionary in Asia; Antoine Houdar de la Motte (1672-1731), a French author of comedies, operas and ballets; Pierre de St. Paul, Sieur de La Motte (Pierre La Motte or Pierre Lamotte) (d. 1685), French captain of a company of the Carignan-Salieres Regiment that...
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Mothes Ranking

In France, the name Mothes is the 8,555^th most popular surname with an estimated 500 - 1,000 people with that name. 1

Mothes migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Mothes Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Michel Mothes, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1731 2

Citations +

http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)