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O'tool Family History

O'tool Surname Meaning

Irish: variant spelling of O’Toole.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press


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You can see how O'tool families moved over time by selecting different census years. The O'tool family name was found in the USA, and Scotland between 1880 and 1920. The most O'tool families were found in USA in 1880. In 1881 there were 3 O'tool families living in Lanarkshire. This was 100% of all the recorded O'tool's in Scotland. Lanarkshire had the highest population of O'tool families in 1881.
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Passenger Lists

There are 254 immigration records available for the last name O'tool. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in the UK, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.

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There are 345 military records available for the last name O'tool. For the veterans among your O'tool ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions.

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Average O'tool life expectancy in 1998 was 48 years. This was lower than the general public life expectancy which was 75.

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