Lavis Family History
- Lavis Name Meaning
- English (chiefly West Country): patronymic from Laver. German: unexplained. French: nickname for someone living at a house with a spiral staircase, Old French lavis.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 86,453 Historical Documents with Lavis on Ancestry
- 25,200 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 23,704 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,080 Military Records
- 3,773 Immigration Records
- 31,696 Member Trees
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Number of Lavis families
 89 - 175  30 - 88 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lavis families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lavis 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
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