Agnew Family History
Agnew Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Agneaux in
Manche, France.Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Gnímh ‘descendant of Gníomh’, a byname
meaning ‘action’ or ‘activity’. The Ó Gnímhs were hereditary
poets to a branch of the O’Neills; in this family the traditional
pronunciation is with the stress on the second syllable.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Agnew Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Agnew families
 106 - 210  36 - 105 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Agnew families
|
229 - 455 77 - 228 |
1 - 76 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Agnew Family Origin
Agnew Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Agnew Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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