Shirley Family History
- Shirley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Derbyshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and the West Midlands, all so called from Old English scir ‘bright’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,106,065 Historical Documents with Shirley on Ancestry
- 338,639 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 176,583 Census and Voter Lists
- 39,105 Military Records
- 14,625 Immigration Records
- 537,113 Member Trees
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Number of Shirley families
 244 - 485  82 - 243 |
 1 - 81  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shirley families
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27 - 51 10 - 26 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shirley 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 1881 UK Census Data
Shirley census records
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