Leys Family History
- Leys Name Meaning
- French: habitational name from Leys in Saône-et-Loire. Dutch: patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Laurei(n)s (see Lawrence). Scottish: habitational name from a place in Aberdeenshire called Leys, named with Old English l?se ‘pasture’, ‘meadow’ (see Lees).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 41,306 Historical Documents with Leys on Ancestry
- 14,163 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,082 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,991 Military Records
- 2,310 Immigration Records
- 10,760 Member Trees
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Number of Leys families
 27 - 51  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leys families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Leys 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
Leys census records
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