Bolger Family History
Bolger Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a leather worker, from Middle
English, Old French boulgier, an agent derivative of Old French
boulge ‘leather bag’, ‘wallet’ (Middle English bulge).Irish (South Leinster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Bolguidhir ‘descendant of Bolgodhar’, a personal name
composed of the elements bolg ‘belly’ + odhar ‘yellow’,
‘sallow’.Perhaps an altered spelling of German Bohlinger
or Bolinger. EG.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bolger
Name Distribution of Bolger Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bolger families
 76 - 149  26 - 75 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bolger families
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86 - 170 29 - 85 |
1 - 28 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bolger families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bolger census records
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Bolger Family Origin
Bolger Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bolger
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Bolger Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bolger census records
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