English: habitational name from a place in Northamptonshire, so
named from the genitive case of the northern English personal name
Mack + Old English eg ‘island’, ‘low-lying
land’.Irish: variant of Mackesy, an Anglicized form of
Gaelic Ó Macasa ‘descendant of Macus’, a personal
name which is probably a form of Magnus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
344,929
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Maxey
Click on a place to view Maxey immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.co.uk.
You can find out where the majority of the Maxey families were living before
they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival, and destination.
Click on a circle in the chart to view Maxey emigration records
You can find out when most of the Maxey 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.
Did the Maxeys fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.