Vance Family History
Vance Name Meaning
English and Irish: topographic name for someone who lived by a fen
or marsh, Old English fenn. Compare Fann.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vance
Name Distribution of Vance Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Vance families
 276 - 550  93 - 275 |
 1 - 92  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Vance families
|
37 - 72 13 - 36 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Vance families
|
66 - 130 23 - 65 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vance census records
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Vance Family Origin
Vance Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Vance
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Vance Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Vance census records
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Vance Civil War Service Records
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