Carey Family History
Carey Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ciardha, a midland
family name meaning ‘descendant of Ciardha’, a personal name
derived from ciar ‘dark’, ‘black’.Irish: Anglicized form
of Gaelic Mac Fhiachra ‘son of Fiachra’.English: habitational name from Carey in Devon or Cary in
Somerset, named for the rivers on which they stand; both river names
probably derive from the Celtic root car- ‘love’, ‘liking’,
perhaps with the meaning ‘pleasant stream’.English (of
Norman origin): habitational name from the manor of Carrey, near
Lisieux, Normandy, France, of uncertain origin.Welsh and Cornish:
variant of Carew.Possibly an Americanized form of German
Gehrig or Gehring.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Carey
Name Distribution of Carey Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carey families
 490 - 978  164 - 489 |
 1 - 163  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carey families
|
78 - 153 27 - 77 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Carey census records
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Carey Family Origin
Carey Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Carey Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Carey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Carey census records
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Military Service by Carey
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