Vale Family History
Vale Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley,
Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin
vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it
has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.Galician and
Aragonese: topographic name from val ‘valley’, or habitational
name from any of the places named with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vale
Name Distribution of Vale Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Vale families
 180 - 358  61 - 179 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Vale families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vale census records
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Vale Family Origin
Vale Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Vale families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Vale Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Vale families immigrated
to Australia.
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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 Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Vale Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Vale census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Vale ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Vale
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