Quarry Family History
Quarry Name Meaning
Irish and Manx: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Guaire (see McQuarrie).English (of Norman origin):
nickname for a thickset or portly man, from Anglo-Norman French
quaré ‘square’. Compare Carré (see
Carre).English: from Middle English quarey
‘quarry’, a topographic name for someone who lived near a stone
quarry, or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in
one.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Quarry
Name Distribution of Quarry Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Quarry families
 29 - 55  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Quarry families
|
17 - 32 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Quarry census records
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Quarry Family Origin
Quarry Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Quarry Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Quarry census records
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Military Service by Quarry
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