Lake Family History
- Lake Name Meaning
- English (chiefly West Country): topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, Old English lacu, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in Wiltshire and Devon. Modern English lake (Middle English lake) is only distantly related, if at all; it comes via Old French from Latin lacus. This meaning, which ousted the native sense, came too late to be found as a place name element, but may lie behind some examples of the surname. Part translation of French Beaulac.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,697,877 Historical Documents with Lake on Ancestry
- 560,797 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 361,934 Census and Voter Lists
- 71,925 Military Records
- 32,814 Immigration Records
- 670,407 Member Trees
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Number of Lake families
 633 - 1,264  212 - 632 |
 1 - 211  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lake families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lake 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
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