Dovey Family History
Dovey Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: variant of Duffy.Perhaps an
Americanized spelling of Norwegian Dåvøy, a habitational
name from a farm so named in western Norway, from dove
‘shaking bog’ + øy ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dovey
Name Distribution of Dovey Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dovey families
 136 - 269  46 - 135 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dovey families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dovey census records
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Dovey Family Origin
Dovey Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dovey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dovey census records
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Military Service by Dovey
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