Blakeney Family History
Blakeney Name Meaning
English: habitational name from places so named in Gloucestershire
and Norfolk or from Blackney Farm in Stoke Abbott, Dorset. The first
two are named with Old English blæc, dative blacan
‘black’, ‘dark’ + eg ‘island’, ‘promontory’; the third is
from Old English blæc + hæg ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Blakeney Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Blakeney families
 35 - 68  12 - 34 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Blakeney families
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23 - 43 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Blakeney families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Blakeney Family Origin
Blakeney Immigration Information
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Blakeney Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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