Lucas Family History
Lucas Name Meaning
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, etc.: from the
Latin personal name Lucas (Greek Loukas) ‘man from
Lucania’. Lucania is a region of southern Italy thought to have been
named in ancient times with a word meaning ‘bright’ or ‘shining’.
Compare Lucio. The Christian name owed its enormous popularity
throughout Europe in the Middle Ages to St. Luke the Evangelist, hence
the development of this surname and many vernacular derivatives in
most of the languages of Europe. Compare Luke. This is also
found as an Americanized form of Greek Loukas.Scottish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lùcais
(see McLucas).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lucas
Name Distribution of Lucas Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lucas families
 1,129 - 2,256  377 - 1,128 |
 1 - 376  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lucas families
|
34 - 66 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lucas census records
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Lucas Family Origin
Lucas Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lucas Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Lucas Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lucas census records
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Military Service by Lucas
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