The shaughnessy Surname

shaughnessy Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced form of O’Shaughnessy.

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

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shaughnessy Family Facts

Distribution of shaughnessy Families in the US in 1920

Number of shaughnessy families

98-193

33-97

1-32

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

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Threads: 144 - Messages: 435

Thread	Author	Replies
Capt. Thomas A.Shaughnessy, MD, 1919	jmull28371	0
Just starting; Shaughnessy	Robyn_McKenzie	6
Griffiths Valuation Indices.	Megan McKenzie	2
Anna Shaugnessy m. Matthew Brennan of Ireland about 1870, IL	Christopher Walsh	21
O'Shaughnessy Society???	cschulte58	6
Shaughnessy	maggieb2007	0
Michael Shaughnessy (1816-1885)	firedoc0	0
Shaunghnessy's of Philadelphia	redsoxx1978	0
Calling all Shaughnessy's with connoctions in Galway ireland	flaskagh	9
shaughnessy/ nestor	flaskagh	10

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