Shields Family History
Shields Name Meaning
Irish: reduced form of O’Shields, an alternative
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail ‘descendant of
Siadhal’.Northern English and Scottish:
habitational name from a pair of places in Northumberland and County
Durham (now both in Tyne and Wear) called North and South Shields,
named with Middle English schele ‘shed’, ‘hut’, ‘shelter’.
GFB There has been much confusion between Shields and
Shield and their variants.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shields
Name Distribution of Shields Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shields families
 340 - 677  114 - 339 |
 1 - 113  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shields families
|
521 - 1,039 174 - 520 |
1 - 173 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shields census records
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Shields Family Origin
Shields Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Shields Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Shields families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Shields Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Shields census records
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Military Service by Shields
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