Sheridan Family History
Sheridan Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sirideáin
‘descendant of Sirideán’, a personal name of uncertain
origin, possibly akin to sirim ‘to seek’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sheridan
Name Distribution of Sheridan Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sheridan families
 387 - 771  130 - 386 |
 1 - 129  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sheridan families
|
111 - 219 38 - 110 |
1 - 37 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sheridan census records
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Sheridan Family Origin
Sheridan Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sheridan Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sheridan Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sheridan census records
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Military Service by Sheridan
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