Reff Family History
- Reff Name Meaning
- Dutch: from a reduced form of a Germanic personal name composed of ragin ‘counsel’ + fridu ‘peace’. German: metonymic occupational name for a carrier or peddler, from Middle High German ref(f) ‘pannier’, ‘basket’. German: from a reduced form of a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ric ‘power(ful)’ + fridu ‘peace’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,785 Historical Documents with Reff on Ancestry
- 6,519 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,200 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,325 Military Records
- 637 Immigration Records
- 4,104 Member Trees
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Number of Reff families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Reff census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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