Clive Family History
- Clive Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Shropshire and Cheshire, named Clive, from the dative case of Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘bank’, ‘cliff’ (see Cliff), originally used after a preposition. In some cases the name may be topographical, with the same origin and meaning.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 61,435 Historical Documents with Clive on Ancestry
- 17,391 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 14,306 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,522 Military Records
- 2,095 Immigration Records
- 26,121 Member Trees
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Number of Clive families
 37 - 71  13 - 36 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Clive 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
Clive census records
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