Denison Family History
- Denison Name Meaning
- English: patronymic from the personal name Dennis. Possibly an Americanized form of cognates in other languages, for example Russian Denisov, from Denis, or Ukrainian Denysevich, from Denys.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 581,914 Historical Documents with Denison on Ancestry
- 114,292 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 74,857 Census and Voter Lists
- 15,425 Military Records
- 7,965 Immigration Records
- 369,375 Member Trees
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Number of Denison families
 327 - 651  110 - 326 |
 1 - 109  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Denison families
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53 - 103 18 - 52 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Denison census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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