Terry Family History
- Terry Name Meaning
- English and Irish: from the common Norman personal name, T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), composed of the unattested Germanic element þeudo- ‘people’, ‘race’ + ric ‘power’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was often taken as a derivative of Greek Theodoros (see Theodore). There was an Anglo-Norman family of this name in County Cork. Irish: Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley). Southern French: occupational name for a potter, from Occitan terrin ‘earthenware vase’ (a diminutive of terre ‘earth’, Latin terra).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,360,566 Historical Documents with Terry on Ancestry
- 825,492 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 511,877 Census and Voter Lists
- 103,634 Military Records
- 36,065 Immigration Records
- 1,883,498 Member Trees
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Number of Terry families
 782 - 1,562  261 - 781 |
 1 - 260  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Terry families
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77 - 152 26 - 76 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Terry census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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