Kennedy Family History
Kennedy Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Ceannéidigh ‘descendant of Ceannéidigh’, a personal
name derived from ceann ‘head’ + éidigh ‘ugly’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kennedy
Name Distribution of Kennedy Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kennedy families
 1,304 - 2,605  435 - 1,303 |
 1 - 434  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kennedy families
|
1,512 - 3,021 505 - 1,511 |
1 - 504 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kennedy census records
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Kennedy Family Origin
Kennedy Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kennedy Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kennedy Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kennedy census records
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Military Service by Kennedy
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