Adney Family History
- Adney Name Meaning
- habitational name from Adeney in Shropshire, named in Old English as Eadwynna ey ‘island of a woman called Eadwynn’. English: from a Middle English pet form of Adam. Forms such as Adenet, Adinot, Addy, and Adey are all well attested. Possibly an Americanized spelling of Norwegian Aadnøy, a habitational name from a farmstead so named, from Old Norse {o,}rn ‘eagle’ + øy ‘island’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 48,005 Historical Documents with Adney on Ancestry
- 9,100 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,965 Census and Voter Lists
- 864 Military Records
- 356 Immigration Records
- 31,720 Member Trees
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Number of Adney families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Adney census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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