Rodas Family History
- Rodas Name Meaning
- Catalan: variant of Rodes 2. Galician and Portuguese: habitational name from any of three places in Galicia (in Lugo, Ourense, and Pontevedra), named Rodas, from the plural of roda ‘wheel’. metonymic occupational name for a wheelwright, from roda ‘wheel’, cognate with 1.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 59,612 Historical Documents with Rodas on Ancestry
- 52,877 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,451 Census and Voter Lists
- 193 Military Records
- 2,080 Immigration Records
- 2,011 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rodas census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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