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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Harkness Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Harkness families
 54 - 106  19 - 53 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Harkness families
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72 - 141 25 - 71 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Harkness families
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195 - 388 66 - 194 |
1 - 65 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Harkness Family Origin
Harkness Immigration Information
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Harkness Family Occupations
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