Flaherty Family History
Flaherty Name Meaning
Irish (Connacht): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Flaithbheartaigh ‘descendant of Flaithbheartach’, a byname
meaning ‘generous’, ‘hospitable’ (from flaith(eamh) ‘prince’,
‘ruler’ + beartach ‘acting’, ‘behaving’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Flaherty
Name Distribution of Flaherty Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Flaherty families
 356 - 709  119 - 355 |
 1 - 118  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Flaherty families
|
175 - 347 59 - 174 |
1 - 58 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Flaherty families
|
38 - 74 13 - 37 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Flaherty Family Origin
Flaherty Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Flaherty
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Flaherty Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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