Dau Family History
- Dau Name Meaning
- North German and Dutch: from an Old Frisian personal name Douwo. South German: from Davo, a short form of the personal name Tavold, formed with Old High German dau ‘custom’, ‘tradition’. Vietnamese: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 135,404 Historical Documents with Dau on Ancestry
- 97,767 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,246 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,679 Military Records
- 5,530 Immigration Records
- 18,182 Member Trees
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Number of Dau families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dau families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dau census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Dau census records
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