Van winkle Family History
- Van winkle Name Meaning
- Dutch (also Van Winckle, Van Winkel): topographic name for someone who lived on a corner (either a street corner or a corner of land), from Dutch winkel ‘corner’, ‘nook’, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, for example in North Holland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 129,334 Historical Documents with Van winkle on Ancestry
- 26,739 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,440 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,675 Military Records
- 1,588 Immigration Records
- 76,892 Member Trees
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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 1881 UK Census Data
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