The Mulkey surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,061 people carried this name — #5,724 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 48,800 people counted. That is up 6% from 5,695 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Mulkey surname

Variant of Mulcahy.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Mulkey» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In print

Mulkey in American newspapers,
1906–1922.

Newspaper page from Evening Star carrying the name Mulkey
Evening Star 1914-07-14
Newspaper page from The New York Herald carrying the name Mulkey
The New York Herald 1922-08-27
Newspaper page from Portland New Age carrying the name Mulkey
Portland New Age 1906-08-18

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 24,189 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Mulkey in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1950s.

40 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Mulkey. The most, 14, date from the 1950s.

Articles, by state

Queensland 16
New South Wales 8
South Australia 7
Victoria 7
Tasmania 1
Western Australia 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Mulkey.

Who carried it

People named Mulkey,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Frederick W. Mulkey
    Frederick W. Mulkey 1874–1924 · lawyer
  • Cyrenius Mulkey 1832–1914 · horse trainer
  • William Oscar Mulkey 1871–1943 · lawyer

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Mulkey,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States320 records

320 records of the Mulkey name in the United States
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 185
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 87
  • New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 30
  • Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 5
  • New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 5
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 4
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 3
  • U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record William W. Mulkey

    Born 1923 in North Carolina. Enlisted 1943 at Baltimore, Maryland; construction laborer from Calvert County, Maryland. U.S. Army veteran; died 1967, buried at Glenwood Cemetery, Bristol, Tennessee.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Terry Lee Mulkey

    Born 1948; from Smyrna, Georgia. U.S. Marine Corps, rifleman; killed in action 1968 in Quang Nam, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. A passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, arriving at New York in 1903
    Example: passenger manifest, 1903
    Passenger record Manner Mulkey

    Arrived at New York in 1834 aboard the Henrietta from Halifax, aged 40; fisherman. From Ireland.

    U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)

Showing 3 of 320 records for Mulkey in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).

Australia9 records

9 records of the Mulkey name in Australia
  • Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 6
  • NSW convict, estate and railway indexes 3
  1. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record George Mulkey

    Transported to New South Wales aboard the Indefatigable, arriving 1815; ticket of leave 1830. Native of London.

    Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY)
  2. An 1829 etching of convicts being rowed out to the prison ship York in Portsmouth Harbour
    Pictured: convicts going on board a prison ship, 1829
    Transportation record George Mulkey

    Transported to New South Wales aboard the Indefatigable, arriving 1815; ticket of leave 1829. Native of Middlesex.

    Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY)

Showing 2 of 9 records for Mulkey in Australia.

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0) · Museums of History NSW – State Archives Collection (CC BY). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour, with the convicts going on board, etching by Edward William Cooke, 1829, Royal Museums Greenwich (public domain).

Netherlands1 record

1 record of the Mulkey name in the Netherlands Dutch church registers before 1811
  1. A page of the burial register of Newtown, Wales, 1858
    Example: burial register, 1858
    Burial record Jan Mulkey

    Buried in 1675 in Bergen op Zoom.

    Open Archives, West Brabants Archief (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Burial register of Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 1858, National Library of Wales (CC0).

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