Merry Family History
- Merry Name Meaning
- English: nickname for someone with a blithe or happy disposition, from Middle English merry ‘lively’, ‘cheerful’ (Old English myr(i)ge ‘pleasant’, ‘agreeable’). Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mearadhaigh, Ó Meardha ‘descendant of Mearadhach’, ‘descendant of Meardha’, personal names derived from an adjective meaning ‘lively’, ‘wild’, ‘wanton’. French: from a vernacular form of the personal name Médéric, derived from a Germanic personal name conposed of mecht ‘strength’, ‘might’ + ric ‘power’; ‘ruler’. French: habitational name from Merry in Yonne or Merri in Orne, derived from the Latin personal name Matrius + the suffix -acum.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 455,752 Historical Documents with Merry on Ancestry
- 117,422 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 87,542 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,999 Military Records
- 8,932 Immigration Records
- 232,857 Member Trees
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Number of Merry families
 50 - 97  17 - 49 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Merry families
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194 - 386 65 - 193 |
1 - 64 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Merry families
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61 - 120 21 - 60 |
1 - 20 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Merry census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Merry census records
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- All Merry
- 142
- Confederate
- 9
- Union
- 133
from the Civil War Service Records
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