Barclay Family History
Barclay Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name of English origin, from Berkeley in
Gloucestershire, named in Old English with be(o)rc ‘birch’ +
leah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Barclay
Name Distribution of Barclay Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Barclay families
 174 - 346  59 - 173 |
 1 - 58  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barclay families
|
587 - 1,172 196 - 586 |
1 - 195 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Barclay census records
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Barclay Family Origin
Barclay Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Barclay Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Barclay Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Barclay census records
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Military Service by Barclay
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