Abernathy Family History
- Abernathy Name Meaning
- Scottish: habitational name from Abernethy in southeastern Perthshire. The place name is of Pictish origin, meaning ‘mouth of the river Nethy’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,084,317 Historical Documents with Abernathy on Ancestry
- 121,168 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 59,585 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,596 Military Records
- 2,462 Immigration Records
- 880,506 Member Trees
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Number of Abernathy families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Abernathy families
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Abernathy census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Abernathy census records
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