Ferry Family History
- Ferry Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearadhaigh ‘descendant of Fearadhach’, a personal name of uncertain origin, probably an adjective derivative of fear ‘man’. English: metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ferry crossing on a river. Middle English feri ‘ferry’ is from Old Norse ferja ‘ferry’, ultimately cognate with the Old English verb ferian ‘to carry’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 433,790 Historical Documents with Ferry on Ancestry
- 159,491 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 100,846 Census and Voter Lists
- 28,351 Military Records
- 15,039 Immigration Records
- 130,063 Member Trees
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Number of Ferry families
 162 - 321  55 - 161 |
 1 - 54  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ferry families
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17 - 32 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Ferry 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
Ferry census records
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