Gaffin Family History
- Gaffin Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced form of McGaffin, an Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Eacháin (see McGahan).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,066 Historical Documents with Gaffin on Ancestry
- 6,831 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,148 Census and Voter Lists
- 864 Military Records
- 784 Immigration Records
- 6,439 Member Trees
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Number of Gaffin families
 13 - 24  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gaffin families
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1 1 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gaffin census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Gaffin families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Gaffin families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Gaffin census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Gaffin ancestors, such as occupation.
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