Wise Family History
- Wise Name Meaning
- English: nickname for a wise or learned person, or in some cases a nickname for someone suspected of being acquainted with the occult arts, from Middle English wise ‘wise’ (Old English wis). This name has also absorbed Dutch Wijs, a nickname meaning ‘wise’, and possibly cognates in other languages. Americanized form of German and Jewish Weiss ‘white’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,354,576 Historical Documents with Wise on Ancestry
- 747,699 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 473,178 Census and Voter Lists
- 92,447 Military Records
- 36,695 Immigration Records
- 1,004,557 Member Trees
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Number of Wise families
 662 - 1,322  221 - 661 |
 1 - 220  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wise families
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10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wise 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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