Dornan Family History
- Dornan Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dornáin or Ó Doirnín ‘descendant of Doirnín’, a byname from a diminutive of dorn ‘fist’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 54,150 Historical Documents with Dornan on Ancestry
- 19,459 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,540 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,184 Military Records
- 2,168 Immigration Records
- 16,799 Member Trees
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Number of Dornan families
 12 - 22  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dornan families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Dornan 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
Dornan census records
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