Rankin Family History
Rankin Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: from the medieval personal name
Rankin, a diminutive of Ronald or Rand, with the
diminutive suffix -kin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rankin
Name Distribution of Rankin Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rankin families
 228 - 454  77 - 227 |
 1 - 76  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rankin families
|
873 - 1,744 292 - 872 |
1 - 291 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rankin census records
You can see how Rankin families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Rankin Family Origin
Rankin Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Rankin families immigrated
to the United States.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rankin Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Rankin families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Rankin Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rankin census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Rankin ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Rankin
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