Gifford Family History
Gifford Name Meaning
habitational name for someone from Giffords Hall in
Suffolk. It was originally named in Old English as Gyddingford
‘ford associated with Gydda’. Compare Giddens.possibly in some cases a variant spelling of Giffard, which
may derive from an Old German personal name, Gifard, or from a
Middle English nickname from Old French giffard
‘chubby-cheeked’, ‘bloated’ (a pejorative of giffel ‘jaw’,
‘cheek’, of Germanic origin).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
901,425
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gifford
Name Distribution of Gifford Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gifford families
 187 - 371  63 - 186 |
 1 - 62  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gifford families
|
70 - 138 24 - 69 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gifford census records
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Gifford Family Origin
Gifford Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gifford Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Gifford Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gifford census records
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Military Service by Gifford
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