Toy Family History
- Toy Name Meaning
- English: nickname for a light-hearted or frivolous person, from Middle English toy ‘play’, ‘sport’ (of uncertain origin), or from an occasional medieval personal name, Toye. French: metonymic occupational name for a sheath maker, from Old French toie ‘sheath’ (Latin theca).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 258,245 Historical Documents with Toy on Ancestry
- 78,361 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 47,946 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,694 Military Records
- 15,632 Immigration Records
- 107,612 Member Trees
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Number of Toy families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Toy 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
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