Hornby Family History
Hornby Name Meaning
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from any of various
places in northern England so called. Those in Lancashire and near
Bedale in North Yorkshire are from the Old Norse personal name
Horni ‘horn’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’,
‘settlement’. One in the parish of Great Smeaton, North Yorkshire, is
recorded in Domesday Book as Horenbodebi and probably has as
its first element an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements
horn ‘horn’ + boði ‘messenger’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hornby
Name Distribution of Hornby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hornby families
 871 - 1,739  291 - 870 |
 1 - 290  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hornby families
|
5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hornby Family Origin
Hornby Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hornby Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hornby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Hornby
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