Colville Family History
Colville Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Colleville in
Seine-Maritime, France, named with the Scandinavian personal name
Koli (see Cole 2) + Old French ville
‘settlement’, ‘village’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Colville Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Colville families
 44 - 86  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Colville families
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66 - 130 23 - 65 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Colville Family Origin
Colville Emigration Information (US)
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Colville Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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