Derry Family History
Derry Name Meaning
English: variant of Deary, or alternatively a nickname
for a merchant or tradesman, from Anglo-French darree
‘pennyworth’, from Old French denree.Irish:
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Doiridh, the name of an
eccesiastical family from Donegal, meaning ‘descendant of
Doireadh’. Derry is often confused with Deery.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Derry
Name Distribution of Derry Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Derry families
 176 - 349  59 - 175 |
 1 - 58  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Derry families
|
35 - 68 12 - 34 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Derry census records
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Derry Family Origin
Derry Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Derry Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Derry census records
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Military Service by Derry
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