Shipley Family History
- Shipley Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of the various places, for example in Derbyshire, County Durham, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex, and West Yorkshire, so called from Old English sceap, scip ‘sheep’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 829,155 Historical Documents with Shipley on Ancestry
- 231,604 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 135,175 Census and Voter Lists
- 26,697 Military Records
- 9,311 Immigration Records
- 426,368 Member Trees
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Number of Shipley families
 268 - 533  90 - 267 |
 1 - 89  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shipley families
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26 - 50 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Shipley 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
Shipley census records
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