Lindsay Family History
Lindsay Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Lindsey in Lincolnshire,
England. This is first found in the form Lindissi, apparently a
derivative of the British name of Lincoln. To this was later
added the Old English element eg ‘island’, since the place
was virtually cut off by the surrounding fenland. The surname was
taken to Scotland at an early date and is the name of an important and
powerful Scottish family.Irish: adopted as an equivalent of
various Gaelic names (see Lindsey).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
1,347,581
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lindsay
Name Distribution of Lindsay Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lindsay families
 328 - 654  110 - 327 |
 1 - 109  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lindsay families
|
1,279 - 2,556 427 - 1,278 |
1 - 426 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lindsay census records
You can see how Lindsay families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
View all Lindsay census records
>
Lindsay Family Origin
Lindsay Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Lindsay emigration records
You can find out when most of the Lindsay families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Lindsay emigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Lindsay Emigration Information (AU)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Lindsay emigration records
You can find out when most of the Lindsay families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
View all Lindsay emigration records >
from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Lindsay Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lindsay census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Lindsay ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Lindsay census records >
Military Service by Lindsay
Message Board about Lindsay
866 Threads, 99
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Lindsay.
Threads: 866 - Messages: 99
Start a FREE Lindsay family tree
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.
About Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×