Devos Family History
- Devos Name Meaning
- Dutch (De Vos): from Middle Dutch de vos ‘the fox’; a nickname for someone with red hair, or a crafty man. Respelling of the French topographic name Devault.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 66,734 Historical Documents with Devos on Ancestry
- 17,765 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,101 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,036 Military Records
- 3,306 Immigration Records
- 39,526 Member Trees
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Number of Devos families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Devos families
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12 - 22 5 - 11 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Devos 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
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