Sharkey Family History
Sharkey Name Meaning
Irish (Ulster and Connacht): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Searcaigh ‘descendant of Searcach’, a byname
meaning ‘beloved’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sharkey
Name Distribution of Sharkey Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sharkey families
 126 - 250  43 - 125 |
 1 - 42  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sharkey families
|
105 - 207 36 - 104 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sharkey families
|
48 - 93 17 - 47 |
1 - 16 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sharkey census records
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Sharkey Family Origin
Sharkey Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sharkey
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Sharkey Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sharkey census records
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Sharkey Civil War Service Records
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