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A niece is the daughter of your brother or sister, or of your husband's or wife's brother or sister.
A niece is a sibling's daughter. It also covers a spouse's sibling's daughter, so a niece in a will or census may come from the in-law side. The word came through French from a Latin word for granddaughter, and in Middle English niece could still mean a granddaughter.
The 1900 census instructions list niece among the sample answers for relationship to the head, and nieces living in an aunt's or uncle's household are easy to spot there.
As seen in a recordRelationship column of the 1900 census
Ellender Moxley | Niece | S | 22 | Seamstress
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Daily Ancestor. "Niece." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/relationships/niece. Last checked 2026-10-12.