Balfe Family History
- Balfe Name Meaning
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Balbh meaning ‘stammering’, ‘dumb’, itself probably a translation of a Norman family name of similar meaning, for example Baube ‘stammering’, from Latin balbus, itself used as a Roman family name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 34,311 Historical Documents with Balfe on Ancestry
- 14,608 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,135 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,271 Military Records
- 1,721 Immigration Records
- 9,576 Member Trees
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Number of Balfe families
 18 - 34  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Balfe families
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2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Balfe census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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