Donovan Family History
Donovan Name Meaning
Irish (originally of County Limerick, later of Counties Cork and
Kilkenny): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Donndubháin ‘descendant of Donndubhán’, a personal
name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or
‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + the diminutive suffix
-án.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Donovan
Name Distribution of Donovan Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Donovan families
 989 - 1,975  330 - 988 |
 1 - 329  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Donovan families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Donovan census records
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Donovan Family Origin
Donovan Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Donovan Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Donovan Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Donovan census records
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Military Service by Donovan
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