Gaffney Family History
- Gaffney Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gamhna ‘descendant of Gamhain’, a byname meaning ‘calf’. On occasion the English surname Caulfield was adopted as equivalent. Possibly an altered spelling of Swiss German Gaf(f)ner, a topographic name for a cottage dweller, from dialect Gafene ‘large basket’, ‘Alpine (dairy) hut’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 411,448 Historical Documents with Gaffney on Ancestry
- 168,222 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 98,711 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,487 Military Records
- 20,420 Immigration Records
- 103,608 Member Trees
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Number of Gaffney families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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