Dee Family History
Dee Name Meaning
Welsh: nickname for a swarthy person, from Welsh du
‘dark’, ‘black’.Irish: variant of Daw 3.English
and Scottish: habitational name from a settlement on the banks of the
river Dee in Cheshire or either of the rivers so named in
Scotland. The origin of both of these is a Celtic word meaning
‘sacred’, ‘goddess’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dee
Name Distribution of Dee Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dee families
 100 - 197  34 - 99 |
 1 - 33  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dee families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dee census records
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Dee Family Origin
Dee Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Dee families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dee Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Dee families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Dee Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dee census records
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Military Service by Dee
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