Cahill Family History
- Cahill Name Meaning
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cathail ‘descendant of Cathal’, a personal name meaning ‘powerful in battle’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 830,557 Historical Documents with Cahill on Ancestry
- 343,187 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 209,595 Census and Voter Lists
- 38,535 Military Records
- 43,631 Immigration Records
- 195,609 Member Trees
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Number of Cahill families
 221 - 439  74 - 220 |
 1 - 73  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cahill families
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24 - 46 9 - 23 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cahill census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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