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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wick
Name Distribution of Wick Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wick families
 85 - 168  29 - 84 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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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Wick Family Origin
Wick Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Wick
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Wick Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Wick Civil War Service Records
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