Conway Family History
Conway Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of various Gaelic names, such as Mac
Conmidhe (see McNamee); Ó Connmhaigh or Mac
Connmhaigh (‘descendant (or son) of Connmhach’, a personal
name derived from connmach ‘head-smashing’), also Anglicized as
Conoo; and Ó Conbhuide (‘descendant of Cú
Bhuidhe’, a personal name composed of the elements cú
‘hound’ + buidhe ‘yellow’).Welsh: habitational name
from Conwy formerly Conway, a fortified town on the coast of North Wales, itself named
for the river on which it stands.Scottish:
habitational name from Conway in the parish of Beauly, recorded
c.1215 as Coneway and in 1291 as Convathe. It
probably gets its name from Gaelic coinmheadh ‘billet’, ‘free
quarters’, being so named as the district in which the local lord’s
household troops were billeted.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Conway Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Conway families
 643 - 1,284  215 - 642 |
 1 - 214  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Conway families
|
201 - 399 68 - 200 |
1 - 67 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Conway Family Origin
Conway Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Conway Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Conway Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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