Cage Family History
Cage Name Meaning
Reduced form of Irish McCage, a variant of
McCaig.English (East Anglia): from Middle English, Old
French cage ‘cage’, ‘enclosure’ (Latin cavea
‘container’, ‘cave’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker
and seller of small cages for animals or birds, or a keeper of the
large public cage in which petty criminals were confined for short
periods of imprisonment.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cage
Name Distribution of Cage Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cage families
 45 - 87  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cage families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cage census records
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Cage Family Origin
Cage Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cage Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cage Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cage census records
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Military Service by Cage
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