Bilby Family History
- Bilby Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place in Nottinghamshire, so named with the Old Norse personal name Billi + Old Norse býr ‘settlement’, ‘farmstead’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 57,108 Historical Documents with Bilby on Ancestry
- 20,511 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,979 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,617 Military Records
- 1,641 Immigration Records
- 20,360 Member Trees
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Number of Bilby families
 45 - 87  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bilby 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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