Wilkes Family History
Wilkes Name Meaning
English: patronymic from Wilk.Frisian: from a pet
form of the personal name Will.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wilkes Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wilkes families
 777 - 1,552  260 - 776 |
 1 - 259  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wilkes families
|
11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wilkes census records
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Wilkes Family Origin
Wilkes Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Wilkes Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Wilkes Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wilkes census records
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Military Service by Wilkes
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