Rafferty Family History
Rafferty Name Meaning
Irish (especially Ulster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Rabhartaigh or Ó Robhartaigh (often found as
Ó Raithbheartaigh) ‘descendant of Rabhartach or
Robhartach’, a personal name meaning ‘flood tide’, hence
‘abundance’, ‘prosperity’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Rafferty Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rafferty families
 224 - 445  75 - 223 |
 1 - 74  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rafferty families
|
180 - 357 61 - 179 |
1 - 60 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rafferty census records
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Rafferty Family Origin
Rafferty Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rafferty Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Rafferty Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rafferty census records
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Military Service by Rafferty
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