Rigby Family History
Rigby Name Meaning
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Rigby in
Lancashire, named with Old Norse hryggr ‘ridge’ + býr
‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Rigby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rigby families
 2,982 - 5,962  995 - 2,981 |
 1 - 994  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rigby families
|
22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rigby census records
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Rigby Family Origin
Rigby Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rigby Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Rigby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rigby census records
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Military Service by Rigby
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