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The kilbride Surname

kilbride Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Brighde (Irish) or Mac Gille Brighde (Scottish) ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Brigit’, more often Anglicized as McBride. The name Brighid (modern Brigit) means ‘exalted’. Brighid was probably originally a pagan fire goddess, many of whose attributes became attached to the historical figure of St. Brigit of Kildare (452–523), founder of the first Irish convent.
  2. Scottish: habitational name from any of the various places with this name, from Gaelic cill Bríghde ‘church of St. Brigit’ (cill being from Latin cella ‘room’, ‘cell’).

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

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Distribution of kilbride Families in the US in 1920
Number of kilbride families
 18-34
 7-17		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 34 - Messages: 98
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Michael Joseph Kilbride Martha Chouinard 4
Adair MO Family Tree seanagainflynn 0
Info on John Kilbride oleander04 2
Kilbride Lisa Kilbride 2
Kilbride''s Terri 4
Photos ca 1890s Grand Rapids, Michigan Fred Kopfler 1
Kilbride, Mooney, queenmary1946 0
Catharine (1837) tcoan191 11
Kilbrides in Queens County 33155 4
?Spelt Kilbride Gilbride,Bernard or Frank 16
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