Doe Family History
Doe Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname for a mild and gentle man, from
Middle English do ‘doe’ (Old English da).English (of Norman origin): habitational name (Old French
d’Eu) for someone from Eu in Seine-Maritime, France. The place
name is either a dramatic reduction of Latin Augusta ‘(city of)
Augustus’, or else derives from the Germanic element auwa
‘water meadow’, ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Doe
Name Distribution of Doe Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Doe families
 188 - 373  63 - 187 |
 1 - 62  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Doe families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Doe census records
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Doe Family Origin
Doe Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Doe Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Doe census records
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Military Service by Doe
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