Card Family History
- Card Name Meaning
- English: metonymic occupational name for someone who carded wool (i.e. disentangled it), preparatory to spinning, from Middle English, Old French card(e) ‘carder’, an implement used for this purpose. Reduced form of Irish McCard.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 736,413 Historical Documents with Card on Ancestry
- 158,994 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 116,810 Census and Voter Lists
- 21,227 Military Records
- 9,706 Immigration Records
- 429,676 Member Trees
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Number of Card families
 198 - 393  67 - 197 |
 1 - 66  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Card families
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54 - 106 19 - 53 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Card 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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from 1881 CA Census Data
Card census records
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