Drone Family History
- Drone Name Meaning
- Probably an altered spelling of North German Drohne, a habitational name from a place in Westphalia called Drohne, or from a fieldname, from Middle Low German dron(e), a unit of land. Possibly a variant of English Drane, Irish Drohan, or Scottish Dron, a habitational name from a place so called in Perthshire.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,599 Historical Documents with Drone on Ancestry
- 6,492 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,580 Census and Voter Lists
- 859 Military Records
- 241 Immigration Records
- 8,427 Member Trees
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Number of Drone families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Drone census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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