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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
  • According to family lore, this name was brought to the southern States by a certain Isaac I. Kirksey in the second half of the 17th century. He is believed to have been born in about 1660, probably in one of the midland counties of England.

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