Doe Family History
- Doe Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: nickname for a mild and gentle man, from Middle English do ‘doe’ (Old English da). English (of Norman origin): habitational name (Old French d’Eu) for someone from Eu in Seine-Maritime, France. The place name is either a dramatic reduction of Latin Augusta ‘(city of) Augustus’, or else derives from the Germanic element auwa ‘water meadow’, ‘island’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 281,130 Historical Documents with Doe on Ancestry
- 106,933 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 64,077 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,808 Military Records
- 5,510 Immigration Records
- 94,802 Member Trees
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Number of Doe families
 188 - 373  63 - 187 |
 1 - 62  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Doe families
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21 - 40 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Doe 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
Doe census records
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