Vales Family History
- Vales Name Meaning
- Catalan (Valès): respelling of Catalan Vallès (see Valles). Galician: habitational name from any of the places called Vales in Galicia, or topographic name from the plural of Galician val ‘valley’. Czech (Valeš): from a pet form of the personal name Valentin (see Valentine).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 36,711 Historical Documents with Vales on Ancestry
- 18,531 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,297 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,176 Military Records
- 3,588 Immigration Records
- 7,119 Member Trees
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Number of Vales families
 9 - 15  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vales 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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