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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gaffney Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gaffney families
 212 - 421  71 - 211 |
 1 - 70  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gaffney families
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74 - 145 25 - 73 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gaffney Family Origin
Gaffney Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gaffney Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Gaffney Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gaffney census records
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