Rooney Family History
Rooney Name Meaning
reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruanaidh
‘descendant of Ruanadh’, a byname meaning ‘champion’.reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruadháin (see
Ruane).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rooney
Name Distribution of Rooney Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rooney families
 493 - 984  165 - 492 |
 1 - 164  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rooney families
|
297 - 592 100 - 296 |
1 - 99 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rooney census records
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Rooney Family Origin
Rooney Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rooney Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Rooney Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rooney census records
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Military Service by Rooney
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