Vilar Family History
- Vilar Name Meaning
- Catalan, Galician and Portuguese: habitational name from any of the numerous places called Vilar, which are named from vilar ‘village’ or ‘(outlying) farmstead’, a derivative of vila ‘(outlying) farmstead’, ‘(dependent) settlement’; or topographic name for someone who lived in a vilar. Slovenian (central Slovenia): from an agent noun derived from vile ‘hayfork’, ‘dungfork’, either a nickname or perhaps an occupational name for a fork maker. It may also be a variant spelling of the surname Vilhar, a medieval derivative of the German personal name Wilhelm.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 61,151 Historical Documents with Vilar on Ancestry
- 55,435 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 900 Census and Voter Lists
- 336 Military Records
- 3,485 Immigration Records
- 995 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vilar census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Vilar census records
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