Shreve Family History
- Shreve Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for a sheriff, from Middle English schiref, shreeve, shryve ‘sheriff’, from Old English scir ‘shire’, ‘administrative district’ + (ge)refa ‘reeve’ (see Reeve). In some cases it may have arisen from a nickname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 225,171 Historical Documents with Shreve on Ancestry
- 55,340 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 23,077 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,449 Military Records
- 1,933 Immigration Records
- 137,372 Member Trees
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Number of Shreve families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shreve families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shreve 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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