Neill Family History
Neill Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: reduced form of Irish Gaelic Ó
Néill or Scottish Gaelic Mac Néill ‘descendant (or
son) of Niall’, a personal name of Irish origin, thought to
mean ‘champion’. The personal name was adopted by Norsemen in the form
Njáll, and was brought to England both directly from Ireland
by Scandinavian settlers and indirectly (via France) by the Normans.
Among the latter it had taken the form Ni(h)el, which was
altered by folk etymology to the Latin name Nigellus.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Neill
Name Distribution of Neill Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Neill families
 270 - 537  91 - 269 |
 1 - 90  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Neill families
|
142 - 281 48 - 141 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Neill census records
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Neill Family Origin
Neill Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Neill Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Neill families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Neill Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Neill census records
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Military Service by Neill
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