Cliff Family History
Cliff Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place named with Old English
clif ‘slope’, ‘bank’, ‘cliff’, or a topographic name from the
same word. The Old English word was used not only in the sense of
modern English cliff but also of much gentler slopes and
frequently also of a riverbank.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cliff
Name Distribution of Cliff Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cliff families
 267 - 531  90 - 266 |
 1 - 89  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cliff families
|
10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cliff census records
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Cliff Family Origin
Cliff Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cliff Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Cliff families immigrated
to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cliff Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cliff census records
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Military Service by Cliff
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