Midgley Family History
Midgley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in West
Yorkshire, or minor places in Cheshire, named in Old English as ‘midge
glade’, from micg(e) ‘midge’ + leah ‘wood’;
‘clearing’, ‘glade’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Midgley
Name Distribution of Midgley Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Midgley families
 1,591 - 3,180  531 - 1,590 |
 1 - 530  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Midgley families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Midgley census records
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Midgley Family Origin
Midgley Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Midgley Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Midgley Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Midgley census records
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Military Service by Midgley
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