Legg Family History
- Legg Name Meaning
- English (chiefly West Country): metonymic nickname for someone with some malformation or peculiarity of the leg, or just with particularly long legs, from Middle English legg (Old Norse leggr).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 733,123 Historical Documents with Legg on Ancestry
- 251,900 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 150,634 Census and Voter Lists
- 17,870 Military Records
- 17,989 Immigration Records
- 294,730 Member Trees
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Number of Legg families
 532 - 1,062  178 - 531 |
 1 - 177  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Legg families
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36 - 70 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Legg 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
Legg census records
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