Adkins Family History
- Adkins Name Meaning
- English: from the Middle English personal name Adkin, a pet form of Adam that was in use particularly in the English Midlands, + patronymic -s. Compare Atkins.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,909,665 Historical Documents with Adkins on Ancestry
- 540,809 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 224,892 Census and Voter Lists
- 61,687 Military Records
- 6,708 Immigration Records
- 2,075,569 Member Trees
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Number of Adkins families
 172 - 341  58 - 171 |
 1 - 57  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Adkins families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Adkins census records
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Adkins census records
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