Rigby Family History
- Rigby Name Meaning
- English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Rigby in Lancashire, named with Old Norse hryggr ‘ridge’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 916,904 Historical Documents with Rigby on Ancestry
- 355,613 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 143,108 Census and Voter Lists
- 15,537 Military Records
- 41,219 Immigration Records
- 361,427 Member Trees
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Number of Rigby families
 43 - 84  15 - 42 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Rigby families
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2,982 - 5,962 995 - 2,981 |
1 - 994 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rigby families
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22 - 42 8 - 21 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rigby 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
Rigby census records
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- All Rigby
- 170
- Confederate
- 45
- Union
- 125
from the Civil War Service Records
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