Nightingale Family History
Nightingale Name Meaning
English: nickname for someone with a good voice, from Middle
English nighti(n)gale (Old English nihtegal, from
niht ‘night’ + galan ‘sing’).Probably a
translation of German and Jewish Nachtigall, or cognates in
other languages.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Nightingale
Name Distribution of Nightingale Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Nightingale families
 613 - 1,224  205 - 612 |
 1 - 204  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nightingale families
|
9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Nightingale Family Origin
Nightingale Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Nightingale Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Nightingale Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Nightingale
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