Barbary Family History
Barbary Name Meaning
English: from a pet form of the female personal name
Barbara (see Barbara).Southern French: from a
diminutive of Occitan barbari ‘barbarous’, ‘barbarian’. In
particular, this word came to denote a Moor or Berber from the Barbary
Coast in North Africa, and hence was then applied to a man of swarthy
appearance or uncouth habits.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Barbary
Name Distribution of Barbary Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Barbary families
 28 - 53  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barbary families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Barbary census records
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Barbary Family Origin
Barbary Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Barbary Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Barbary census records
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Military Service by Barbary
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