Nigh Family History
- Nigh Name Meaning
- Probably an altered spelling of English Nye, or possibly an Americanized spelling of German Neu or Ney.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 118,000 Historical Documents with Nigh on Ancestry
- 17,814 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,081 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,747 Military Records
- 531 Immigration Records
- 86,827 Member Trees
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Number of Nigh families
 17 - 31  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nigh families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Nigh census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Nigh census records
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