Bodkin Family History
- Bodkin Name Meaning
- Irish: from Bowdekyn, an English pet form of Baldwin, a Norman name well established in Ireland, described by McLysaght as the name of one of the ‘Tribes of Galway’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 103,007 Historical Documents with Bodkin on Ancestry
- 30,635 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 20,582 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,098 Military Records
- 2,348 Immigration Records
- 46,344 Member Trees
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Number of Bodkin families
 71 - 139  24 - 70 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bodkin families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bodkin 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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