Kenny Family History
Kenny Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Coinnigh ‘descendant of Coinneach’, an Old Irish personal
name equivalent to Scottish Kenneth. This was borne by a
6th-century monk and saint who gave his name to the town of
Kilkenny ‘church of Coinneach’.Irish: possibly an
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cionaodha ‘descendant of
Cionaodh’, a personal name of unexplained etymology.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kenny
Name Distribution of Kenny Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kenny families
 621 - 1,239  208 - 620 |
 1 - 207  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kenny families
|
66 - 129 23 - 65 |
1 - 22 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kenny census records
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Kenny Family Origin
Kenny Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kenny Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kenny Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kenny census records
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Military Service by Kenny
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