Fain Family History
Fain Name Meaning
French: habitational name from any of various places in France,
deriving their names mostly from Old French fain ‘swamp’, but
Latin fanum ‘temple’ is also a source in some
cases.English: variant spelling of Fayne.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Fain
Name Distribution of Fain Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fain families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fain families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fain census records
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Fain Family Origin
Fain Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Fain Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Fain
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