Meloy Family History
Meloy Name Meaning
Norwegian (Meløy): habitational name from any of
several farmsteads on islands so named, from Old Norse meðal
‘middle’ (or melr ‘sandbank’, ‘gravel bank’) + øy
‘island’.Norwegian (Mjoløy): habitational name from
a farmstead named with mjol ‘flour’, ‘sand’ + øy
‘island’.Irish: variant of Malloy.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Meloy Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Meloy families
 28 - 54  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Meloy families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Meloy Family Origin
Meloy Emigration Information (US)
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Meloy Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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