Coffin Family History
Coffin Name Meaning
English and French: metonymic occupational name for a basket maker,
from Old French cof(f)in ‘basket’ (Late Latin cophinus,
Greek kophinos). The modern English word coffin is a
specialized development of this term, not attested until the 16th
century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Coffin
Name Distribution of Coffin Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Coffin families
 167 - 331  56 - 166 |
 1 - 55  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Coffin families
|
95 - 188 32 - 94 |
1 - 31 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Coffin families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Coffin census records
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Coffin Family Origin
Coffin Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Coffin
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Coffin Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Coffin census records
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Coffin Civil War Service Records
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