Kilkenny Family History
Kilkenny Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chainnigh ‘son
of the devotee of (Saint) Cainneach’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kilkenny
Name Distribution of Kilkenny Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kilkenny families
 36 - 70  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kilkenny families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kilkenny census records
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Kilkenny Family Origin
Kilkenny Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Kilkenny families immigrated
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kilkenny Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kilkenny census records
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Military Service by Kilkenny
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