Tigges Family History
- Tigges Name Meaning
- North German (especially Rhineland): variant of Thieges (see Tiegs). Dutch: patronymic, perhaps from a pet form of a Germanic personal name composed of the unattested word þeudo ‘people’, ‘nation’ + gar, ger‘spear’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 28,392 Historical Documents with Tigges on Ancestry
- 15,681 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,773 Census and Voter Lists
- 720 Military Records
- 527 Immigration Records
- 8,691 Member Trees
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Number of Tigges families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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