Shipley Family History
Shipley Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the various places, for
example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire,
Sussex, and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English
sceap, scip ‘sheep’ + leah ‘wood’,
‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shipley
Name Distribution of Shipley Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shipley families
 242 - 482  81 - 241 |
 1 - 80  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Shipley families
|
268 - 533 90 - 267 |
1 - 89 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shipley families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Shipley Family Origin
Shipley Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Shipley
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Shipley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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