Dumas Family History
- Dumas Name Meaning
- Southern French: topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article du, for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village, from Occitan mas ‘farmstead’, from Late Latin mansum, mansus.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 456,641 Historical Documents with Dumas on Ancestry
- 161,928 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 77,183 Census and Voter Lists
- 15,212 Military Records
- 8,575 Immigration Records
- 193,743 Member Trees
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Number of Dumas families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dumas families
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233 - 464 78 - 232 |
1 - 77 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Dumas 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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