Sidney Family History
- Sidney Name Meaning
- habitational name from Sidney in Surrey and Lincolnshire, so named from Old English sid ‘wide’ + eg ‘island’, ‘dry island in a fen’, with the adjective retaining traces of the weak dative ending, originally used after a preposition and definite article. Two places in Cheshire called Sydney are from Old English sid + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’ and may also be sources of the surname. possibly a habitational name from a place in Normandy called Saint-Denis, from the dedication of its church to St. Dionysius (see Dennis). There is, however, no evidence to support this derivation beyond occasional early modern English forms such as Seyndenys, which may equally well be the result of folk etymology.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 158,386 Historical Documents with Sidney on Ancestry
- 42,576 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 30,956 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,948 Military Records
- 4,047 Immigration Records
- 75,859 Member Trees
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Number of Sidney families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sidney 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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