Lees Family History
Lees Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English
lees ‘fields’, ‘arable land’, plural of lee (see
Lee), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture’, ‘meadow’
(Old English l?s).English: habitational name from
Leece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from Old
English leas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural of
leah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably named
with a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall’, ‘court’, ‘the principal
house in a district’.English: variant spelling of
Leece 1.Scottish: reduced form of Gillies.Scottish and Irish: reduced and altered form of McLeish.Dutch: variant of Leys.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lees
Name Distribution of Lees Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lees families
 2,368 - 4,734  790 - 2,367 |
 1 - 789  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lees families
|
278 - 553 93 - 277 |
1 - 92 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lees census records
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Lees Family Origin
Lees Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lees Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Lees families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Lees Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lees census records
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Military Service by Lees
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