Dee Family History
- Dee Name Meaning
- Welsh: nickname for a swarthy person, from Welsh du ‘dark’, ‘black’. Irish: variant of Daw 3. English and Scottish: habitational name from a settlement on the banks of the river Dee in Cheshire or either of the rivers so named in Scotland. The origin of both of these is a Celtic word meaning ‘sacred’, ‘goddess’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 323,819 Historical Documents with Dee on Ancestry
- 138,921 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 72,712 Census and Voter Lists
- 19,073 Military Records
- 12,006 Immigration Records
- 81,107 Member Trees
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Number of Dee families
 100 - 197  34 - 99 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dee families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Dee 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
Dee census records
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