Fain Family History
- Fain Name Meaning
- French: habitational name from any of various places in France, deriving their names mostly from Old French fain ‘swamp’, but Latin fanum ‘temple’ is also a source in some cases. English: variant spelling of Fayne.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 224,540 Historical Documents with Fain on Ancestry
- 60,458 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 29,057 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,838 Military Records
- 3,465 Immigration Records
- 121,722 Member Trees
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Number of Fain families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fain families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Fain 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 1881 UK Census Data
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