Wick Family History
- Wick Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone who lived in an outlying settlement dependent on a larger village, Old English wic (Latin vicus), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, of which there are examples in Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Worcestershire. The term seems to have been used, in particular, to denote an outlying dairy farm or a salt works. English and German: from a medieval personal name, Middle English Wikke, German Wicko, a short form of any of various Germanic personal names formed with the element wig ‘battle’, ‘war’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 306,918 Historical Documents with Wick on Ancestry
- 132,773 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 58,704 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,354 Military Records
- 11,843 Immigration Records
- 90,244 Member Trees
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Number of Wick families
 49 - 95  17 - 48 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wick families
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14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wick 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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