Fry Family History
Fry Name Meaning
English (chiefly south and southwestern England): variant of
Free, from the Old English byform frig.English:
nickname for a small person, from Middle English fry ‘small
person’, ‘child’, ‘offspring’ (Old Norse frjó ‘seed’).Americanized spelling of German Frei,
Frey.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fry
Name Distribution of Fry Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fry families
 707 - 1,411  236 - 706 |
 1 - 235  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fry families
|
813 - 1,623 272 - 812 |
1 - 271 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fry families
|
17 - 32 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fry census records
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Fry Family Origin
Fry Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Fry
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Fry Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Fry census records
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Fry Civil War Service Records
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