Willoughby Family History
Willoughby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places called
Willoughby, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire,
Nottinghamshire, and Warwickshire. They are named from an Old English
wilig ‘willow’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’,
or perhaps in some cases from wilig + Old English
beag ‘ring’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
761,162
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Willoughby
Name Distribution of Willoughby Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Willoughby families
 274 - 545  92 - 273 |
 1 - 91  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Willoughby families
|
13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Willoughby census records
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Willoughby Family Origin
Willoughby Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Willoughby Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Willoughby census records
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Military Service by Willoughby
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