Keen Family History
Keen Name Meaning
English: from Kene, a short form of the Old English
personal name Cen or Cyne, based on Old English
cene ‘wise’, ‘brave’, ‘proud’.Americanized spelling of
German Kühn (see Kuehn).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
663,382
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Keen
Name Distribution of Keen Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Keen families
 649 - 1,295  217 - 648 |
 1 - 216  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Keen families
|
15 - 28 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Keen census records
You can see how Keen families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Keen Family Origin
Keen Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Keen families immigrated
to the United States.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Keen Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Keen families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Keen Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Keen census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Keen ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Keen
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