Devlin Family History
- Devlin Name Meaning
- Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dobhailéin ‘descendant of Dobhailéan’, a personal name of uncertain origin, probably from a diminutive of dobhail ‘unlucky’, ‘unfortunate’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 521,616 Historical Documents with Devlin on Ancestry
- 200,493 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 145,261 Census and Voter Lists
- 25,782 Military Records
- 29,225 Immigration Records
- 120,855 Member Trees
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Number of Devlin families
 150 - 297  51 - 149 |
 1 - 50  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Devlin families
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475 - 947 159 - 474 |
1 - 158 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Devlin 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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