Villa Family History
Villa Name Meaning
Asturian-Leonese and Spanish: habitational name from any of the
places (mainly in Asturies) called Villa, from villa ‘(outlying)
farmstead’, ‘(dependent) settlement’, or from any of the numerous
places named with this word as the first element.Italian: topographic name for someone who lived in a village as
opposed to an isolated farmhouse, or in a town as opposed to the
countryside, from Latin villa ‘country house’, ‘estate’, later
used to denote of a group of houses forming a settlement and in some
dialects to denote the most important area or center of a settlement,
or a habitational name from any of various 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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Villa
Name Distribution of Villa Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Villa families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Villa families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Villa census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Villa Family Origin
Villa Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Villa families immigrated
to the United States.
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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 New York Passenger Lists
Villa Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Villa census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Villa ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Villa
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