Snape Family History
Snape Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places
in England and southern Scotland, for example in North Yorkshire near
Bedale, in the Lowlands near Biggar, and in Suffolk, so named with Old
English snæp ‘area of boggy land’. In Sussex the dialect
term snape is still used of boggy, uncultivable land.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Snape
Name Distribution of Snape Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Snape families
 786 - 1,569  263 - 785 |
 1 - 262  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Snape families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Snape census records
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Snape Family Origin
Snape Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Snape Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Snape families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Snape Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Snape census records
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Military Service by Snape
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