Wish Family History
- Wish Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by a water meadow or marsh, Middle English wyshe (Old English wisc). Americanized spelling of Wisch.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 39,833 Historical Documents with Wish on Ancestry
- 21,926 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,919 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,828 Military Records
- 1,039 Immigration Records
- 5,121 Member Trees
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Number of Wish families
 30 - 58  11 - 29 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wish 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 Wish 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
Wish census records
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