Scanlon Family History
Scanlon Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Scannláin,
‘descendant of Scannlán’, a personal name formed from a
diminutive of Scannal (see Scannell).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Scanlon
Name Distribution of Scanlon Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Scanlon families
 322 - 642  108 - 321 |
 1 - 107  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Scanlon families
|
87 - 172 30 - 86 |
1 - 29 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Scanlon families
|
23 - 44 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Scanlon census records
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Scanlon Family Origin
Scanlon Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Scanlon
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Scanlon Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Scanlon census records
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Scanlon Civil War Service Records
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