Wignall Family History
- Wignall Name Meaning
- English (Lancashire): habitational name from Wignal, a minor place near Holmes in the parish of Croston, so named from the genitive case of the Old English byname Wicga (see Wigley) + Old English h(e)alh ‘nook’, ‘corner’, ‘recess’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 173,784 Historical Documents with Wignall on Ancestry
- 66,171 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 26,237 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,155 Military Records
- 2,543 Immigration Records
- 76,678 Member Trees
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Number of Wignall families
 607 - 1,212  203 - 606 |
 1 - 202  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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- England (32)
- Great Britain (3)
- Ireland (2)
- Dakota,United States of America (1)
- Koreigners,Germany (1)
- Norway (1)
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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