Cardiff Family History
Cardiff Name Meaning
Welsh: habitational name from the Welsh city Cardiff in Glamorgan,
named with Welsh caer ‘fort’ + the genitive singular of the
river name Taf, from Welsh taf ‘water’, ‘stream’.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cardiff
Name Distribution of Cardiff Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cardiff families
 32 - 61  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cardiff families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cardiff census records
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Cardiff Family Origin
Cardiff Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Cardiff families immigrated
to the United States.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cardiff Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cardiff census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Cardiff ancestors, such as occupation.
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Military Service by Cardiff
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