Irvine Family History
Irvine Name Meaning
Scottish, also common in northern Ireland: habitational name from
Irvine in Ayrshire, which is named from a Celtic river, Welsh
ir, yr ‘green’, ‘fresh’ + afon ‘water’. There has
been much confusion with Irving and Irwin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Irvine
Name Distribution of Irvine Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Irvine families
 224 - 446  75 - 223 |
 1 - 74  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Irvine families
|
713 - 1,424 238 - 712 |
1 - 237 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Irvine census records
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Irvine Family Origin
Irvine Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Irvine Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Irvine Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Irvine census records
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Military Service by Irvine
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