Bligh Family History
- Bligh Name Meaning
- English: variant of Blythe. Irish: Americanized form of the Connacht name Ó Blighe ‘descendant of Blighe’, a personal name probably derived from the Old Norse byname Blígr (from blígja ‘to gaze’). Cornish: nickname from Cornish blyth ‘wolf’. Compare Blethen.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 98,825 Historical Documents with Bligh on Ancestry
- 32,098 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 23,490 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,501 Military Records
- 5,032 Immigration Records
- 35,704 Member Trees
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Number of Bligh families
 70 - 138  24 - 69 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bligh families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bligh 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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