Fergus Family History
- Fergus Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearghuis or Ó Fearghasa ‘descendant of Fearghus’, a personal name composed of the elements fear ‘man’ + gus ‘vigor’, ‘force’, or possibly ‘choice’. This was the name of an early Irish mythological figure, a valiant warrior, also of the grandfather of St. Columba. Scottish: from the Gaelic personal name Fearghus (see 1 above).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 107,037 Historical Documents with Fergus on Ancestry
- 33,420 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 26,586 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,996 Military Records
- 4,316 Immigration Records
- 38,719 Member Trees
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Number of Fergus families
 18 - 33  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fergus families
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105 - 208 36 - 104 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fergus census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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