Garvin Family History
Garvin Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gairbhín
‘descendant of Gairbhín’, a personal name derived from a
diminutive of garbh ‘rough’, ‘cruel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Garvin
Name Distribution of Garvin Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Garvin families
 45 - 88  16 - 44 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Garvin families
|
13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Garvin census records
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Garvin Family Origin
Garvin Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Garvin Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Garvin census records
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Military Service by Garvin
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