The foley Surname

foley Name Meaning and History

(southern) reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Foghladha ‘descendant of Foghlaidh’, a byname meaning ‘pirate’, ‘marauder’.
(northern) Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Searraigh (see McSharry), chosen because of its phonetic approximation to English foal.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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foley Family Facts

Distribution of foley Families in the US in 1920

Number of foley families

839-1675

280-838

1-279

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 883 - Messages: 1967

Thread	Author	Replies
Thomas Foley b: 1650 d: 1689-90	peasedm	1
Foley or Coyne from Galway	brandimm	0
Hugh Foley m. to Mary Gannon	fireboy2	0
Descendents of William Foley (Greene Co, IN) family reunion	Terryelf	3
robert thomas foley or jean alda wells foley	mammapuppy	0
Foleys from Greensburg, Indiana	TerriMays	2
Looking for Burial Place of Timothy Foley & son Timothy Foley in MA, both of Shanahill, Keel, Castlemaine, Co. Kerry	Mary_Leinenbach	2
Mary Foley b 1915-1925 married James Casey	emmacole118	3
Foley family in County Tipperary	dgates85	1
FOLEY'S SCOTLAND TO NEW YORK 1887	AnneRutherford77	0

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