Kirby Family History
Kirby Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places in
northern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja
‘church’ + býr ‘settlement’.Irish: adopted as an
English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of
Ciarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare
Kerwick.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Kirby Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kirby families
 203 - 403  68 - 202 |
 1 - 67  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kirby families
|
895 - 1,788 299 - 894 |
1 - 298 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kirby families
|
19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kirby census records
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Kirby Family Origin
Kirby Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Kirby
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Kirby Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Kirby census records
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Kirby Civil War Service Records
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