Fahey Family History
Fahey Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fathaidh or
Ó Fathaigh ‘descendant of Fathadh’, a personal name
derived from fothadh ‘base’, ‘foundation’. This name is
sometimes Anglicized as Green(e) as a result of erroneous
association with faithche ‘lawn’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fahey
Name Distribution of Fahey Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fahey families
 43 - 83  15 - 42 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fahey families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fahey census records
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Fahey Family Origin
Fahey Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fahey Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Fahey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fahey census records
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Military Service by Fahey
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