Kelsey Family History
Kelsey Name Meaning
English: habitational name from North or South Kelsey in
Lincolnshire, so named from Ceol, an Old English personal
name, or alternatively from an unattested Old Scandinavian word,
kæl ‘wedge-shaped piece of land’, + eg ‘island’,
‘area of dry land in a marsh’.Possibly also an
Americanized form of German Gelzer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kelsey
Name Distribution of Kelsey Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kelsey families
 219 - 435  74 - 218 |
 1 - 73  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kelsey families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kelsey census records
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Kelsey Family Origin
Kelsey Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kelsey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Kelsey
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