Downey Family History
- Downey Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dúnadhaigh ‘descendant of Dúnadhach’, a personal name meaning ‘fortress-holder’ (from dún ‘fortress’, ‘fortified hill’). Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maol Dhomhnaigh, or of Mac Giolla Dhomnaigh (see Maloney). Scottish: habitational name from the Scottish barony of Downie or Duny in the parish of Monikie in Angus (on Tayside), named from Gaelic dùn ‘hill’ + the locative suffix -ach.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 968,621 Historical Documents with Downey on Ancestry
- 349,197 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 218,208 Census and Voter Lists
- 46,671 Military Records
- 31,963 Immigration Records
- 322,582 Member Trees
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Number of Downey families
 229 - 456  77 - 228 |
 1 - 76  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Downey families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Downey 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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