Higgins Family History
Higgins Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUiginn
‘descendant of Uiginn’, a byname meaning ‘viking’, ‘sea-rover’
(from Old Norse víkingr).Irish: variant of
Hagan.English: patronymic from the medieval
personal name Higgin, a pet form of Hick.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Higgins
Name Distribution of Higgins Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Higgins families
 1,145 - 2,288  382 - 1,144 |
 1 - 381  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Higgins families
|
500 - 997 167 - 499 |
1 - 166 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Higgins census records
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Higgins Family Origin
Higgins Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Higgins Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Higgins Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Higgins census records
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Military Service by Higgins
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1898 Threads, 17
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