Keighley Family History
Keighley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place so named in West
Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Chichelai, apparently
named with an Old English personal name Cyhha + Old English
leah ‘woodland clearing’.Americanized spelling of
German Kiechle (see Kuechle) or Kiechler (see
Kuechler).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Keighley
Name Distribution of Keighley Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Keighley families
 578 - 1,154  193 - 577 |
 1 - 192  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Keighley families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Keighley census records
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Keighley Family Origin
Keighley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Keighley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Keighley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Keighley census records
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Military Service by Keighley
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