Fey Family History
- Fey Name Meaning
- English: variant of Fay. Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood. German: nickname for a vagrant, from Middle High German vehe ‘enmity’, ‘strife’. German: from a popular medieval pet form of the female personal name Sophie, honored as a martyr and saint. Danish: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 198,419 Historical Documents with Fey on Ancestry
- 94,804 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 24,651 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,200 Military Records
- 4,318 Immigration Records
- 68,446 Member Trees
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Number of Fey families
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 1  |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fey 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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