Rooney Family History
- Rooney Name Meaning
- reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruanaidh ‘descendant of Ruanadh’, a byname meaning ‘champion’. reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruadháin (see Ruane).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 692,821 Historical Documents with Rooney on Ancestry
- 268,867 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 179,699 Census and Voter Lists
- 31,422 Military Records
- 39,703 Immigration Records
- 173,130 Member Trees
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Number of Rooney families
 493 - 984  165 - 492 |
 1 - 164  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rooney families
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297 - 592 100 - 296 |
1 - 99 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rooney 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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