Eagle Family History
Eagle Name Meaning
English (mainly East Anglia): nickname for a lordly,
impressive, or sharp-eyed man, from Middle English egle ‘eagle’
(from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila).English
(of Norman origin): habitational name from Laigle in Orne, France, the
name of which ostensibly means ‘the eagle’, although it is possible
that the recorded forms result from the operation of early folk
etymology on some unknown original. Matilda de Aquila is recorded in
1129 as the widow of Robert Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland.Jewish: translation into English of Adler.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Eagle Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Eagle families
 210 - 418  71 - 209 |
 1 - 70  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Eagle families
|
21 - 39 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Eagle census records
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Eagle Family Origin
Eagle Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Eagle Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Eagle Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Eagle census records
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Military Service by Eagle
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