Finlayson Family History
- Finlayson Name Meaning
- Scottish: patronymic from Finlay.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 249,490 Historical Documents with Finlayson on Ancestry
- 68,020 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 78,193 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,581 Military Records
- 17,012 Immigration Records
- 77,684 Member Trees
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Number of Finlayson families
 50 - 97  17 - 49 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Finlayson families
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390 - 778 131 - 389 |
1 - 130 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Finlayson 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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