Dorney Family History
- Dorney Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place in Buckinghamshire, named from Old English dora ‘bee’ (genitive plural dorena) + eg ‘island’, ‘dry ground in marsh’. Irish (Counties Cork and Tipperary): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Doirinne ‘descendant of Doireann’, a female personal name meaning ‘sullen’. Americanized spelling of Hungarian Dörnyei or Dörnyey, habitational names for someone from a place called Dernye in former Körös county.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 54,730 Historical Documents with Dorney on Ancestry
- 21,894 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,126 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,454 Military Records
- 2,489 Immigration Records
- 14,767 Member Trees
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Number of Dorney families
 24 - 45  9 - 23 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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