Paisley Family History
- Paisley Name Meaning
- Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from a place in Renfrewshire, now a suburb of Glasgow. It is first recorded in 1157 as Passeleth, then in 1158 as Paisleth and in 1163 as Passelet, Passelay; it may be derived from Late Latin basilica ‘church’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 182,679 Historical Documents with Paisley on Ancestry
- 40,815 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 32,178 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,154 Military Records
- 4,461 Immigration Records
- 100,071 Member Trees
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Number of Paisley families
 32 - 62  11 - 31 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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42 - 81 15 - 41 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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50 - 98 17 - 49 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Paisley
- 63
- Confederate
- 19
- Union
- 44
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