Clifford Family History
- Clifford Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of various places called Clifford, for example in Devon, Gloucestershire, West Yorkshire, and in particular Herefordshire. The place name is derived from Old English clif ‘slope’ + ford ‘ford’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,842,729 Historical Documents with Clifford on Ancestry
- 487,374 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 337,309 Census and Voter Lists
- 49,697 Military Records
- 49,701 Immigration Records
- 918,648 Member Trees
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Number of Clifford families
 648 - 1,293  217 - 647 |
 1 - 216  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Clifford families
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56 - 110 19 - 55 |
1 - 18 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Clifford census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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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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