Sloss Surname History

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Scotland

Early Origins of the Sloss family

The surname Sloss was first found in Aberdeenshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Obar Dheathain), a historic county, and present day Council Area of Aberdeen, located in the Grampian region of northeastern Scotland, where they held a family seat from ancient times at Peterhead, twenty eight miles north east of Aberdeen. It being the most easterly point in all of Scotland.

Early History of the Sloss family

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Sloss Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Slassor, Slesser, Slessor, Slessar and others.

Early Notables of the Sloss family

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Sloss Ranking

the United States, the name Sloss is the 12,945^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Sloss migration to the United States +

Sloss Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

James Sloss, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1844 2

Sloss migration to Australia +

Sloss Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

Mr. David Sloss, Scottish convict who was convicted in Glasgow, Scotland for 7 years, transported aboard the "Egyptian" on 5th April 1839, arriving in Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land) 3

Sloss migration to New Zealand +

Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:

Sloss Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

John Sloss, aged 30, a farm labourer, who arrived in Nelson, New Zealand aboard the ship "Clifford" in 1842
Esther Sloss, aged 22, who arrived in Nelson, New Zealand aboard the ship "Clifford" in 1842

Contemporary Notables of the name Sloss (post 1700) +

R. M. Sloss, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1952 4
Joseph Humphrey Sloss (1826-1911), American politician, Mayor of Tuscumbia, Alabama; Member of Alabama State Legislature; U.S. Representative from Alabama 6th District, 1871-75 5
I. Herman Sloss, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1920 5
Henry C. Sloss, American politician, Member of California State Assembly 18th District, 1859-60 5
B. W. Sloss, American politician, Mayor of Big Rapids, Michigan; Elected 1922 5
John Sloss Hobart (1738-1805), American jurist and politician, United States Senator from New York in 1798
James Sloss Ackerman (b. 1919), American architectural historian awarded a 2001 Balzan Prize

Sources +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
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)
Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 26th January 2022). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/egyptian
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 3) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html