Vail Family History
Vail Name Meaning
English: variant spelling of Vale.Scottish:
shortened form of Macvail, a variant of Macphail, an
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phàil ‘son of
Paul’.Irish: variant of Veale.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vail
Name Distribution of Vail Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Vail families
 48 - 94  17 - 47 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Vail families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vail census records
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Vail Family Origin
Vail Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Vail Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Vail census records
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Military Service by Vail
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