Oakes Family History
Oakes Name Meaning
English: topographic name, a plural variant of Oak.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of
Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh
‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by
translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Oakes
Name Distribution of Oakes Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Oakes families
 551 - 1,099  184 - 550 |
 1 - 183  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Oakes families
|
20 - 37 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Oakes census records
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Oakes Family Origin
Oakes Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Oakes Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Oakes census records
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