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bligh Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Blythe.
  2. Irish: Americanized form of the Connacht name Ó Blighe ‘descendant of Blighe’, a personal name probably derived from the Old Norse byname Blígr (from blígja ‘to gaze’).
  3. Cornish: nickname from Cornish blyth ‘wolf’. Compare Blethen.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bligh name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bligh family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bligh Families in the US in 1920
Number of bligh families
 22-41
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 41 - Messages: 127
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Capt. Bligh related to Earls of Darnley? AGHatchett3rd 0
Catherine Bligh Williams half sister Lesley Ford 3
E J A Bligh died 13/04/1945 W Honeyball 2
BLIGH Surname DNA Project BLIGHDNA 0
william brother of harold tictattoe 0
Family of Kate Bligh Kathy 2
Death of Patrick BLIGH in CA in 1860 danderup 0
Otis Bligh/Bly Massachusetts/Rhode Island, not sure where else sentry41 0
Bligh,james,g gilbert bligh 36
BLIGH of Ballivor, Co. Meath, IRL MikeBx38 2
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