Kearney Family History
Kearney Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Catharnaigh
‘descendant of Catharnach’, a byname meaning ‘warlike’ or
‘soldier’, and Ó Cearnaigh, from cearnach
‘victorious’. Both surnames were widely distributed and are now very
difficult to disentangle.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kearney
Name Distribution of Kearney Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kearney families
 182 - 361  61 - 181 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kearney families
|
77 - 151 26 - 76 |
1 - 25 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kearney census records
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Kearney Family Origin
Kearney Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kearney Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kearney Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kearney census records
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Military Service by Kearney
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