Berry Family History
Berry Name Meaning
Irish (Galway and Mayo): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Béara or Ó Beargha (see Barry 1).Scottish and northern Irish: variant spelling of Barrie.English: habitational name from any of several places named
with Old English byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortified
manor house’, ‘stronghold’, such as Berry in Devon or Bury in
Cambridgeshire, Greater Manchester, Suffolk, and West
Sussex.French: regional name for someone from Berry, a former
province of central France, so named with Latin Boiriacum,
apparently a derivative of a Gaulish personal name, Boirius or
Barius. In North America, this name has alternated with
Berrien.Swiss German: pet form of a Germanic personal name
formed with Old High German bero ‘bear’ (see Baer).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Berry
Name Distribution of Berry Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Berry families
 3,565 - 7,127  1,189 - 3,564 |
 1 - 1,188  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Berry families
|
220 - 437 74 - 219 |
1 - 73 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Berry census records
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Berry Family Origin
Berry Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Berry Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Berry Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Berry census records
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Military Service by Berry
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