Vernon Family History
- Vernon Name Meaning
- English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Vernon in Eure, France, named from the Gaulish element ver(n) ‘alder’ + the Gallo-Roman locative suffix -o (genitive -onis). French: habitational name from the same place as in 1 or from any of numerous other places in France with the same name and etymology.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,915,536 Historical Documents with Vernon on Ancestry
- 479,270 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 173,809 Census and Voter Lists
- 43,203 Military Records
- 26,566 Immigration Records
- 1,192,688 Member Trees
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Number of Vernon families
 452 - 902  151 - 451 |
 1 - 150  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Vernon families
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14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Vernon 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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