Speight Family History
Speight Name Meaning
English (now chiefly Yorkshire): nickname from Middle English
speght ‘woodpecker’, probably from an unrecorded Old English
word akin to specan ‘to speak, talk, chatter’. Compare
Speak.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Speight
Name Distribution of Speight Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Speight families
 86 - 169  29 - 85 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Speight families
|
1,006 - 2,010 336 - 1,005 |
1 - 335 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Speight families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Speight census records
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Speight Family Origin
Speight Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Speight
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Speight Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Speight census records
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Speight Civil War Service Records
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