Cliff Family History
- Cliff Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place named with Old English clif ‘slope’, ‘bank’, ‘cliff’, or a topographic name from the same word. The Old English word was used not only in the sense of modern English cliff but also of much gentler slopes and frequently also of a riverbank.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 276,876 Historical Documents with Cliff on Ancestry
- 115,172 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 66,502 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,667 Military Records
- 6,982 Immigration Records
- 78,553 Member Trees
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Number of Cliff families
 267 - 531  90 - 266 |
 1 - 89  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cliff families
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10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cliff census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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