Vale Family History
Vale Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley,
Middle English vale (Old French val, from Latin
vallis). The surname is now also common in Ireland, where it
has been Gaelicized as de Bhál.Galician and
Aragonese: topographic name from val ‘valley’, or habitational
name from any of the places named with this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vale
Name Distribution of Vale Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Vale families
 27 - 52  10 - 26 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Vale families
|
180 - 358 61 - 179 |
1 - 60 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Vale families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vale census records
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Vale Family Origin
Vale Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Vale
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Vale Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Vale census records
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Vale Civil War Service Records
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