Caye Family History
- Caye Name Meaning
- Americanized form of French Caille ‘quail’, a nickname or metonymic occupational name for someone who caught and sold quails. French: possibly from a variant French dialect caye ‘sow’. Compare Caya.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 11,654 Historical Documents with Caye on Ancestry
- 4,964 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,601 Census and Voter Lists
- 323 Military Records
- 427 Immigration Records
- 3,339 Member Trees
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Number of Caye families
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 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Caye families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Caye 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
Caye census records
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