O'kelley Family History
- O'kelley Name Meaning
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ceallaigh ‘descendant of Ceallach’ (see Kelly). This is the name of several Irish families, in Cork and counties Derry and Sligo.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 68,658 Historical Documents with O'kelley on Ancestry
- 13,271 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,608 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,478 Military Records
- 819 Immigration Records
- 45,482 Member Trees
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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