Blakeney Family History
Blakeney Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places so named in Gloucestershire
and Norfolk or from Blackney Farm in Stoke Abbott, Dorset. The first
two are named with Old English blæc, dative blacan
‘black’, ‘dark’ + eg ‘island’, ‘promontory’; the third is
from Old English blæc + hæg ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Blakeney
Name Distribution of Blakeney Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Blakeney families
 23 - 43  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Blakeney families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Blakeney Family Origin
Blakeney Emigration Information (US)
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Blakeney Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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