Shean Family History
- Shean Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced form of Sheehan. English: nickname for an attractive person, from Middle English schene ‘fair’, ‘comely’, ‘handsome’. English: habitational name from Sheen in Surrey and Staffordshire, both named in Old English with the plural of sceo ‘shed’, ‘shelter’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 74,837 Historical Documents with Shean on Ancestry
- 24,673 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 27,958 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,215 Military Records
- 2,919 Immigration Records
- 16,072 Member Trees
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Number of Shean families
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shean 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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