The vance Surname

vance Name Meaning and History

English and Irish: topographic name for someone who lived by a fen or marsh, Old English fenn. Compare Fann.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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vance Family Facts

Distribution of vance Families in the US in 1920

Number of vance families

276-550

93-275

1-92

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 1336 - Messages: 3513

Thread	Author	Replies
Vances of Lincoln County,WV	Jennie Messer	16
JOHN HENRY VANCE /ROSCOE CLEVELAND VANCE	GLORIA VANCE HAHN	17
William Vance	M_Lewis	3
Samuel Vance & Sarah Colville	Terry	11
linzie vance of logan wv.	HermanMoore500	5
Hugh (b. 1786) & Margaret (Tedrick) VANCE of Fayette Co, PA	bvance1943	0
Ellis Vance	shallowdee	0
Cager Vance-Black&Choctaw Indian	vonseal_1	0
William Vance born 1873 Dromore N. Ireland	HLuckwill	2
Vance in Greene County, Ohio	X1957	23

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