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doherty Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dochartaigh ‘descendant of Dochartach’, a byname from do + cartach ‘not loving’. The family were chieftains in Donegal.

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Distribution of doherty Families in the US in 1920
Number of doherty families
 792-1581
 265-791
 1-264
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Threads: 567 - Messages: 1262
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Any doherty from county mayo mad_d02 2
doherty co down jan_doh2 5
O'Doherty/Dougherty/Doherty Wilson Callahan katie Doherty 35
Doherty family in Victoria Australia Kerry 5
dohertys of rensfrew scotland jjaccee3832 10
Alice Doherty Bruce_Blackwell 0
CATHERINE DOHERTYSCOTLAND Jennifer Titano 22
Catherine Doherty GHighton 0
George Raynor Doherty suzanne doherty 0
Doherty/Bonner from Malin Head to Boston~1904 greene12291 0
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