Garvey Family History
Garvey Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gairbhshíth
‘descendant of Gairbhshíth’, a personal name from
garbh ‘rough’, ‘cruel’ + síth ‘peace’. KaM See
also McGarvey.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Garvey
Name Distribution of Garvey Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Garvey families
 181 - 360  61 - 180 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Garvey families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Garvey census records
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Garvey Family Origin
Garvey Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Garvey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Garvey census records
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Military Service by Garvey
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