Heron Family History
Heron Name Meaning
English and French (Héron): nickname for a tall, thin
person resembling a heron, Middle English heiroun,
heyron (Old French hairon, of Germanic origin).English: habitational name from Harome in North Yorkshire,
named with Old English harum, dative plural of hær
‘rock’, ‘stone’. This surname has evidently become confused with 1.Irish: reduced form of O’Heron, an Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó hUidhrín ‘descendant of
Uidhrín’, a personal name from a diminutive of odhar
‘dun’, ‘swarthy’.Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
hEaráin (see Haren).Irish: reduced Anglicized form
of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chiaráin ‘son of the servant of (Saint)
Ciarán’ (see Kieran).
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Heron
Name Distribution of Heron Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Heron families
 205 - 408  69 - 204 |
 1 - 68  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Heron families
|
169 - 335 57 - 168 |
1 - 56 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Heron census records
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Heron Family Origin
Heron Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Heron Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Heron Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Heron census records
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Military Service by Heron
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