Doherty Family History
Doherty Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochartaigh
‘descendant of Dochartach’, a byname from do +
cartach ‘not loving’. The family were chieftains in Donegal.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Doherty Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Doherty families
 458 - 914  153 - 457 |
 1 - 152  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Doherty families
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120 - 238 41 - 119 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Doherty Family Origin
Doherty Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Doherty Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Doherty Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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