Sweeney Family History
Sweeney Name Meaning
Irish: reduced form of McSweeney, an Anglicized form of
Gaelic Mac Suibhne ‘son of Suibhne’, a byname meaning
‘pleasant’.Americanized form of French Choinière
(see Choiniere).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sweeney
Name Distribution of Sweeney Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sweeney families
 489 - 975  164 - 488 |
 1 - 163  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sweeney families
|
383 - 764 128 - 382 |
1 - 127 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sweeney census records
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Sweeney Family Origin
Sweeney Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sweeney Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sweeney Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sweeney census records
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Military Service by Sweeney
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