Orleans Family History
Orleans Name Meaning
French (Orléans): habitational name from the city so
named in Loiret.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Orleans
Name Distribution of Orleans Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Orleans census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Orleans surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
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Orleans Family Origin
Orleans Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Orleans families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Orleans Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Orleans census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Orleans ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Orleans
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