Willard Family History
- Willard Name Meaning
- English: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wil ‘will’, ‘desire’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. Probably an Americanized form of the German cognate Willhardt (see Willert).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,248,125 Historical Documents with Willard on Ancestry
- 259,946 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 147,679 Census and Voter Lists
- 31,128 Military Records
- 13,745 Immigration Records
- 795,627 Member Trees
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Number of Willard families
 180 - 357  61 - 179 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Willard families
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23 - 44 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Willard 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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