Coventry Family History
Coventry Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Coventry in the West
Midlands, which is probably named with the genitive case of an Old
English personal name Cofa (compare Coveney) + Old
English treow ‘tree’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Coventry
Name Distribution of Coventry Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Coventry families
 129 - 255  44 - 128 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Coventry families
|
60 - 117 21 - 59 |
1 - 20 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Coventry census records
You can see how Coventry families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Coventry Family Origin
Coventry Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Coventry emigration records
You can find out when most of the Coventry families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Coventry Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Coventry families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Coventry Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Coventry census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Coventry ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Coventry
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