The Dacey Family History

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The Dacey Family in the Census

Census Freqency of the Surname Dacey
1841 Census 166
1851 Census 278
1861 Census 426
1871 Census 439
1891 Census 600

Most Frequent Forenames for the Dacey Family in the Census

Name 1841 Census 1851 Census 1861 Census 1871 Census 1891 Census Total
MARY Dacey 24 28 26 44 36
JOHN Dacey 14 20 37 40 40
JAMES Dacey 10 14 15 23 31
WILLIAM Dacey 6 14 17 21 30
ELIZABETH Dacey 6 12 19 11 14
ELLEN Dacey 7 10 12 11 22
THOMAS Dacey 7 8 11 18 17
MARGARET Dacey 3 7 18 15 16
ANN Dacey 10 13 12 8 7
MICHAEL Dacey 3 3 8 9 17
SARAH Dacey 6 6 9 7 11
CATHERINE Dacey 5 4 6 13 7
GEORGE Dacey 2 7 7 7 11
CHARLES Dacey 3 3 12 6 9
JANE Dacey 1 5 9 7 7
DANIEL Dacey 3 2 8 10 4
MARY ANN Dacey 2 6 6 7 4
BRIDGET Dacey 2 9 6 5 2
HENRY Dacey 2 4 8 4 6
ELIZA Dacey 7 5 2 3 4

Etmology and History of the Surname: Dacey

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Your Family History Search

You can use the forms below to do automatic searches for the Dacey family online amongst birth, marriage and death records from 1837, plus census transcripts for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901


 


Military Head Dress
Headwear is one of the defining items of military clothing. The colour signifies which part of the army a soldier belongs to, and the headwear carries the Corps or Regimental badge.

 

Encouraging the Wool Trade
In 1678 an act was passed making it compulsory for all corpses to be buried in a shroud made of wool only. This was to encourage the wool trade.

 

Viewing Parish Records in your own home
With the use of personal computers becoming more widespread, the best way to make the parish records easily accessible to the general public is to transfer those records from micro-fiche and film to CD-ROM.

 

Enoch Arnold Bennett in the 1871 Census
Enoch Arnold Bennett was a Novelist, born in Staffordshire. You can find him in the 1871 Staffordshire census at the age of three.