Devon Family History
- Devon Name Meaning
- English: regional name for someone from the county of Devon. In origin, this is from an ancient British tribal name, Latin Dumnonii, perhaps meaning ‘worshipers of the god Dumnonos’. Irish (County Louth): variant of Devine.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 107,370 Historical Documents with Devon on Ancestry
- 29,569 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,820 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,002 Military Records
- 1,693 Immigration Records
- 59,286 Member Trees
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Number of Devon families
 56 - 109  19 - 55 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Devon families
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19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Devon 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Devon census records
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