Foy Family History
- Foy Name Meaning
- Irish: variant of Fahey. Irish: variant of Fee. French: nickname, from Old French foi ‘faith’ (Latin fides), either for a pious person or for someone who frequently used this term in oaths. French: from the medieval female personal name Foy, which is from foi ‘faith’, as above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 482,305 Historical Documents with Foy on Ancestry
- 187,408 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 111,607 Census and Voter Lists
- 22,033 Military Records
- 18,706 Immigration Records
- 142,551 Member Trees
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Number of Foy families
 439 - 875  147 - 438 |
 1 - 146  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Foy families
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29 - 56 10 - 28 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Foy census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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