Converse Family History
- Converse Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English, Old French convers ‘convert’ (Latin conversus, past participle of convertere ‘to turn’), hence a nickname for a Jew converted to Christianity, or more often an occupational name for someone converted to the religious way of life, a lay member of a convent.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 245,664 Historical Documents with Converse on Ancestry
- 54,909 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 33,654 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,159 Military Records
- 3,667 Immigration Records
- 144,275 Member Trees
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Number of Converse families
 3 - 4  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Converse census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Converse census records
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