Van leeuwen Family History
- Van leeuwen Name Meaning
- Dutch and Belgian: habitational name for someone from Leeuwen in Limburg, Netherlands, or from any of various places in Belgium and the Netherlands named with Leeuw, denoting a (burial) mound.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 324,915 Historical Documents with Van leeuwen on Ancestry
- 247,274 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,441 Census and Voter Lists
- 422 Military Records
- 5,471 Immigration Records
- 61,307 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Van leeuwen census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Van leeuwen census records
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