Mcknight Family History
Mcknight Name Meaning
(Ulster) Anglicized form of Scottish Mac
Neachtain, which is usually Anglicized as McNaughton.part translation of Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the
horseman (Gaelic ridire)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mcknight
Name Distribution of Mcknight Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mcknight families
 93 - 183  32 - 92 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mcknight families
|
196 - 390 66 - 195 |
1 - 65 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mcknight census records
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Mcknight Family Origin
Mcknight Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mcknight Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Mcknight Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mcknight census records
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Military Service by Mcknight
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