Lew Family History
- Lew Name Meaning
- Polish: from the personal name Lew ‘lion’, adopted as a translation of Leon (see Lyon 2). Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Lev. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or burial-mound, Old English hl?w, or a habitational name from Lew in Oxfordshire, named with this word. Chinese : variant of Liu 1.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 114,263 Historical Documents with Lew on Ancestry
- 38,424 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 28,711 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,853 Military Records
- 30,445 Immigration Records
- 13,830 Member Trees
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Number of Lew families
 33 - 63  12 - 32 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lew families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Lew 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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