Leal Family History
Leal Name Meaning
English, Spanish, and Portuguese: nickname for a loyal or
trustworthy person, from Old French leial, Spanish and
Portuguese leal ‘loyal’, ‘faithful (to obligations)’, Latin
legalis, from lex, ‘law’, ‘obligation’ (genitive
legis).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Leal
Name Distribution of Leal Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leal families
 70 - 138  24 - 69 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leal families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leal census records
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Leal Family Origin
Leal Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Leal Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Leal census records
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Military Service by Leal
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