Adney Family History
Adney Name Meaning
habitational name from Adeney in Shropshire, named in
Old English as Eadwynna ey ‘island of a woman called
Eadwynn’.English: from a Middle English pet form of
Adam. Forms such as Adenet, Adinot, Addy,
and Adey are all well attested.Possibly an Americanized
spelling of Norwegian Aadnøy, a habitational name from a
farmstead so named, from Old Norse {o,}rn ‘eagle’ +
øy ‘island’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Adney Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Adney families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Adney families
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13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Adney Family Origin
Adney Immigration Information
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Adney Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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