Begley Family History
- Begley Name Meaning
- Irish (Donegal): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beaglaoich ‘descendant of Beaglaoch’, a personal name composed of the elements beag ‘small’ + laoch ‘hero’. Possibly an altered spelling of German Böckle or Swiss Böckli, variants of Bock or of Böckler, an occupational name for a buckle maker or carrier, Middle Low German bokeler.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 348,252 Historical Documents with Begley on Ancestry
- 89,653 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 48,372 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,996 Military Records
- 8,104 Immigration Records
- 193,127 Member Trees
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Number of Begley families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Begley families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Begley census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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