Wride Family History
- Wride Name Meaning
- Americanized spelling of Dutch and North German Wriedt. English: from Old English wride ‘twist’, ‘turn’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a winding stream, or perhaps a nickname for a devious man.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 38,426 Historical Documents with Wride on Ancestry
- 12,587 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,460 Census and Voter Lists
- 747 Military Records
- 901 Immigration Records
- 15,731 Member Trees
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Number of Wride families
 56 - 109  19 - 55 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Wride census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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