Devlin Family History
Devlin Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Dobhailéin ‘descendant of Dobhailéan’, a personal
name of uncertain origin, probably from a diminutive of dobhail
‘unlucky’, ‘unfortunate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Devlin
Name Distribution of Devlin Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Devlin families
 150 - 297  51 - 149 |
 1 - 50  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Devlin families
|
475 - 947 159 - 474 |
1 - 158 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Devlin census records
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Devlin Family Origin
Devlin Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Devlin Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Devlin Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Devlin census records
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Military Service by Devlin
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