Sankey Family History
Sankey Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire, named
with an ancient British river name, perhaps meaning ‘sacred’, ‘holy’.Irish: when not of English origin (see 1 above), a rare reduced
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Seanchaidhe ‘son of the
chronicler’, a name found in Sligo and Leitrim, which is more commonly
Anglicized as Fox, as the result of an erroneous association
with sionnach ‘fox’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Sankey Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sankey families
 257 - 511  86 - 256 |
 1 - 85  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sankey Family Origin
Sankey Emigration Information (US)
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Sankey Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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