Williams Family History
- Williams Name Meaning
- English (also very common in Wales): patronymic from William.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 40,061,580 Historical Documents with Williams on Ancestry
- 15,369,166 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,189,856 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,605,176 Military Records
- 1,074,431 Immigration Records
- 12,822,951 Member Trees
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Number of Williams families
 14,856 - 29,710  4,953 - 14,855 |
 1 - 4,952  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Williams families
|
694 - 1,385 232 - 693 |
1 - 231 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Williams 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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