Raftery Family History
Raftery Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Reachtabhra
‘descendant of Reachtabhra’, from reacht ‘decree’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Raftery
Name Distribution of Raftery Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Raftery families
 28 - 53  10 - 27 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Raftery families
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36 - 69 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Raftery census records
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Raftery Family Origin
Raftery Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Raftery
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Raftery Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Raftery census records
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Raftery Civil War Service Records
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