Van dyke Family History
- Van dyke Name Meaning
- Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by any of the many thousands of dikes in the Netherlands (Middle Dutch dike ‘dike’), or a habitational name for someone from any of the many places in Belgium and the Netherlands called Dijk, Dijke, or Dyck, named with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 211,143 Historical Documents with Van dyke on Ancestry
- 53,086 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 34,600 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,256 Military Records
- 4,147 Immigration Records
- 111,054 Member Trees
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Number of Van dyke families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Van dyke census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Van dyke census records
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