Cardiff Family History
- Cardiff Name Meaning
- Welsh: habitational name from the Welsh city Cardiff in Glamorgan, named with Welsh caer ‘fort’ + the genitive singular of the river name Taf, from Welsh taf ‘water’, ‘stream’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 51,928 Historical Documents with Cardiff on Ancestry
- 14,229 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,681 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,017 Military Records
- 2,075 Immigration Records
- 22,926 Member Trees
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Number of Cardiff families
 32 - 61  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cardiff families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cardiff census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Cardiff families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Cardiff families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cardiff census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Cardiff ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Cardiffs fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
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