Hornby Family History
Hornby Name Meaning
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from any of various
places in northern England so called. Those in Lancashire and near
Bedale in North Yorkshire are from the Old Norse personal name
Horni ‘horn’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’,
‘settlement’. One in the parish of Great Smeaton, North Yorkshire, is
recorded in Domesday Book as Horenbodebi and probably has as
its first element an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements
horn ‘horn’ + boði ‘messenger’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hornby Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hornby families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hornby families
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871 - 1,739 291 - 870 |
1 - 290 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hornby families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hornby Family Origin
Hornby Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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Hornby Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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