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The hackney Surname

hackney Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from Hackney in Greater London, named from an Old English personal name Haca (genitive Hacan) + eg ‘island’, ‘dry ground in marshland’.
  2. from Middle English hakenei (Old French haquenée), an ambling horse, especially one considered suitable for women to ride; perhaps therefore a metonymic occupational name for a stablehand. This surname has also been found in Scotland since medieval times.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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hackney Family Facts

Distribution of hackney Families in the US in 1920
Number of hackney families
 52-101
 18-51		 1-17
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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