Clifton Family History
- Clifton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from any of numerous places named Clifton, from Old English clif ‘slope’ (see Cliff) + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,157,316 Historical Documents with Clifton on Ancestry
- 359,260 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 209,760 Census and Voter Lists
- 39,015 Military Records
- 14,675 Immigration Records
- 534,606 Member Trees
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Number of Clifton families
 416 - 830  139 - 415 |
 1 - 138  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Clifton families
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14 - 25 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Clifton 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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