Longstaff Family History
- Longstaff Name Meaning
- English: apparently an occupational name for a tipstaff or beadle who carried a long staff as a badge of office; perhaps also a nickname for a very tall, thin man, or even an obscene nickname for a man with a long sexual organ. The surname is found chiefly in northeastern England.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 183,216 Historical Documents with Longstaff on Ancestry
- 60,320 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 40,204 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,101 Military Records
- 6,426 Immigration Records
- 73,165 Member Trees
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Number of Longstaff families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Longstaff families
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515 - 1,027 172 - 514 |
1 - 171 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Longstaff families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Longstaff 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 Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- All Longstaff
- 21
- Confederate
- Union
- 21
from the Civil War Service Records
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