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Harkness Family History

Harkness Name Meaning
Scottish: apparently a habitational name from an unidentified place (perhaps in the area of Annandale, with which the surname is connected in early records), probably so called from the Old English personal name Hereca (a derivative of the various compound names with the first element here ‘army’) + Old English næss ‘headland’, ‘cape’. The surname is also established in northern Ireland, where it was taken in the 17th century by settlers from Dumfriesshire.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press

236,457 Historical Documents & Family Trees with Harkness
55,559 Census and Voter Lists
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43,794 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
121,599 Member Family Trees
7,438 Military Records

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Name Distribution of Harkness Families

  • Number of Harkness families
     54 - 106
     19 - 53
     1 - 18
     
    from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
  • Number of Harkness families
     72 - 141
     25 - 71
     1 - 24
     
    from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
  • Number of Harkness families
     195 - 388
     66 - 194
     1 - 65
     
    from the 1891 Scotland Census Data

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Harkness Family Origin

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Harkness Immigration Information

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Harkness Family Occupations

from 1880 Federal Census Data

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