Kearns Family History
Kearns Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Céirín
‘descendant of Céirín’, a personal name from a diminutive
of ciar ‘dark’, ‘black’. English patronymic -s has been
added superfluously.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
188,160
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kearns
Name Distribution of Kearns Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kearns families
 201 - 399  68 - 200 |
 1 - 67  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kearns families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kearns census records
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Kearns Family Origin
Kearns Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kearns Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kearns Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kearns census records
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Military Service by Kearns
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