Ferry Family History
Ferry Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Fearadhaigh ‘descendant of Fearadhach’, a personal name of
uncertain origin, probably an adjective derivative of fear
‘man’.English: metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, or a
topographic name for someone who lived by a ferry crossing on a
river. Middle English feri ‘ferry’ is from Old Norse
ferja ‘ferry’, ultimately cognate with the Old English verb
ferian ‘to carry’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ferry
Name Distribution of Ferry Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ferry families
 162 - 321  55 - 161 |
 1 - 54  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ferry families
|
36 - 70 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ferry census records
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Ferry Family Origin
Ferry Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ferry Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Ferry Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ferry census records
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Military Service by Ferry
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