Jennings Family History
- Jennings Name Meaning
- English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Janyn, Jenyn, a pet form of John. German: patronymic from a pet form of the personal name Johannes (see John).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,597,236 Historical Documents with Jennings on Ancestry
- 1,175,603 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 748,476 Census and Voter Lists
- 121,047 Military Records
- 69,291 Immigration Records
- 1,482,819 Member Trees
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Number of Jennings families
 1,373 - 2,743  458 - 1,372 |
 1 - 457  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Jennings families
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34 - 65 12 - 33 |
1 - 11 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Jennings 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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