Oleary Family History

Oleary Name Meaning

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Name Distribution of Oleary Families

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England & Wales

Scotland

Number of Oleary families

129 - 256

44 - 128

1 - 43

from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data

Number of Oleary families

5 - 7

2 - 4

from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

Oleary census records

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Oleary Family Origin

Ireland (872)

England (100)

Great Britain (76)

Germany (6)

Costa Rica (5)

Scotland (3)

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Oleary Emigration Information (US)

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Oleary Family Occupations

from 1881 UK Census Data

Oleary census records

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Military Service by Oleary

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Dennis Oleary from Co Cork b.1810		18
O'Leary's in Wisconsin		25
O'Leary's from Gneeveguilla, Co. Kerry		8
Jeremiah O'Leary		1
Jeremiah O'Leary ancestry		2
Grandmother	Americ3	0
James Timothy Olary -- DOB 1/1/1833 in Cork Ireland	JaimeNicole74	0
Origins, stories, photos of my O'LEARY family in Cork, Ireland and beyond	J_Thib	2
arthur O´Leary 1849 and Mary Ann O´leary 1846 Wales uk	Dawne Dawe	0
O'LEARY Michael W - Vietnam Wall section 23W	t42Vietnam_ParkerCoTX	0

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