See Family History
- See Name Meaning
- English and German: topographic name for someone who lived by the sea-shore or beside a lake, from Middle English see ‘sea’, ‘lake’ (Old English s?), Middle High German se. Alternatively, the English name may denote someone who lived by a watercourse, from an Old English seoh ‘watercourse’, ‘drain’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Number of See families
 20 - 38  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of See families
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20 - 38 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the See families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the See families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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