Surname Definition: See Family Crest below. Note; Hoy is also apparently Old Norse for high island.

Origins: Co.Tipperary, Ireland AND Orkney, Scotland.

Alternate spellings: HOEY, OHOEY, HOY, HUE, KEHOE, KEOGH, MACKEOGH, HAEY, HOOY, DHOY, DEHOY, VANHOY, DEHUY, DEHOEY, LHOY, and others.

Surnames sharing the RootsWeb Soundex Code: HAY, HEY, HIE, HOEY, HOW, HOWE, HOWEY, HOWIE, HOY, HOYE, HUEY, HUIE, HY.

Other Resources

• HOY Coat of Arms, Family Crest
• HOY Family Genealogy Forum - this forum serves all obvious spelling variations
• HOEY Family Genealogy Forum
• KEOGH Family Genealogy Forum
• KEHOE Family Genealogy Forum
• Up to 17,000 search results for HOY at Rootsweb's World Connect Project
• Rootsweb Messageboards HOY - see also over 20 messageboards with variations to this surname
• Up to 4,000 search results for HOY at GenCircles
• Up to 3,000 search results for HOY at TribalPages
• Over 2,000 search results for HOY at Geneanet
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Linkpendium HOY surname, webpages, genealogy, biographies, family history etc
• HOY Family Tree of interest
• HOY Genealogy and Family History Research
• The Old Man of Hoy, Orkney
• Orkney, UK - Genealogies, Surnames, Family & Local History
• 444 casualty results for HOY - Commonwealth War Graves - Debt of Honour
• AncientFaces - Family Treasures
• GenesReunited $
• FamilySearch - The largest collection of free family history, family tree and genealogy records in the world
• Answers.com – The world’s greatest encyclodictionalmanacapedia
• DeadFred – Genealogy photo archive
• FamilyTreeDNA
• RootsChat – Genealogy, Family History, Local History, Messaging Forum and more
• Australian Dictionary of Biography
• National Archives of Australia
• State Records Office, New South Wales, Australia
• Public Record Office, Victoria, Australia
• Archives of New Zealand
• Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
• Auckland City Libraries – family history resources, New Zealand
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
• Search Family Home Pages at FamilyTreeMaker

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