Virtue Family History
Virtue Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English, Old French
vertu ‘moral worth’; ‘goodness’ (Latin virtus
‘manliness’, ‘valor’, ‘worth’). This may have been bestowed on a good
or pious person, it may alternatively have been a sarcastic nickname
for a prig, or it may have been borne by someone who had played the
part of Virtue in a medieval mystery play.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Virtue
Name Distribution of Virtue Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Virtue families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Virtue families
|
25 - 48 9 - 24 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Virtue census records
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Virtue Family Origin
Virtue Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Virtue 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
Virtue Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Virtue census records
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Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Virtue
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