Fry Family History
Fry Name Meaning
English (chiefly south and southwestern England): variant of
Free, from the Old English byform frig.English:
nickname for a small person, from Middle English fry ‘small
person’, ‘child’, ‘offspring’ (Old Norse frjó ‘seed’).Americanized spelling of German Frei,
Frey.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fry
Name Distribution of Fry Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fry families
 813 - 1,623  272 - 812 |
 1 - 271  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fry families
|
17 - 32 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fry census records
You can see how Fry families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Fry Family Origin
Fry Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Fry families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fry Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Fry families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Fry Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Fry census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Fry ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Fry
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