Widen Family History
- Widen Name Meaning
- Swedish (Widén): ornamental name composed of the elements Wid-, an element of uncertain meaning (see Widman) + the common surname suffix -én, from Latin -enius.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 28,750 Historical Documents with Widen on Ancestry
- 15,654 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,407 Census and Voter Lists
- 853 Military Records
- 3,251 Immigration Records
- 4,585 Member Trees
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Number of Widen families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Widen 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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You can find out when most of the Widen 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
Widen census records
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