Quay Family History
Quay Name Meaning
Scottish: reduced form of McKay.French:
topographic name for someone who lived in a house on a quayside, from
Old French quai ‘quay’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Quay
Name Distribution of Quay Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Quay families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Quay families
|
12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Quay census records
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Quay Family Origin
Quay Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Quay Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Quay census records
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Military Service by Quay
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