Ferneyhough, Fernyhough, Fernihough and their variants.
A home for everyone who carries - or descends from - the name Ferneyhough in any of its spellings: Fernihough, Fernyhough, Fearnehough, Fearneyhough, Fernehough, Fearnyhough, Fernihaugh and more.
This site uses Ferneyhough as its main spelling - the most common on Forebears' worldwide estimates and the spelling of the site's owner - but every spelling is part of the same study. The name is rare, roughly 2,500 people worldwide, and most trace back to the Staffordshire Moorlands, so there is a fair chance we share an ancestor.
- 180
- people with pages
- 729
- in the 1881 census
- 1327
- earliest tax roll
- 9
- spellings tracked
What you will find
Everything we know about the name
Where the name comes from
Ferny Hough, a place near Endon in the Staffordshire Moorlands, and what the sources say - and disagree on.
Read more →Variant spellings
Ferneyhough, Fernyhough, Fernihough, Fearnehough and more, with earliest records and numbers.
Read more →Where the name lived
Estimates today and exact 1881 census counts by spelling and county.
Read more →Early records
From the 1327 and 1332 tax rolls to the first parish registers.
Read more →Family lines
People who have died, from Ipstones, Cheddleton and Leek and the Monmouthshire and Gloucestershire border.
Read more →DNA
How a Y-DNA test can connect branches, and the existing project to join.
Read more →Join in
Know how your family connects? Submit your branch, find out about DNA testing, or get in touch with questions, corrections or removal requests.
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