Callahan Family History
- Callahan Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceallacháin ‘descendant of Ceallachán’, a diminutive of the personal name Ceallach, possibly meaning ‘lover of churches’, from ceall ‘church’, or (more likely) ‘bright-headed’, from cen ‘head’ + lach ‘light’. This name was borne by a 10th-century king of Munster, from whom many present-day bearers of the surname claim descent.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,307,648 Historical Documents with Callahan on Ancestry
- 409,595 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 235,498 Census and Voter Lists
- 64,278 Military Records
- 29,814 Immigration Records
- 568,463 Member Trees
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Number of Callahan families
 40 - 77  14 - 39 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Callahan families
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10 - 18 4 - 9 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Callahan 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 1881 UK Census Data
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