MATTHEW JOHN GIFFIN AND THE GIFFIN FAMILY HISTORY

Family Photos

• THE OLD FORGE PUB (34 KB)
  THIS WAS OWNED BY MY GGG GRANDFATHER WILLIAM JNR AND WILLIAM SNR GIFFIN HERTFORDSHIRE
• GIFFEN CASTLE (82 KB)
  It was king Charles 2 in 1689 who burnt castle Giffen and castle Ellington to the ground after King James fled to France escaping any attempt to take his life for revenge of king Charles 1 beheading back in 1645, he left behind queen Mary of Scotland who had to attend to Charles 2 and his armies. She was captured and held first in Giffen then later at Ellington before her death. .The griffin clan from Wales and Scotland had suffered large casualties in the civil wars of the UK, including the decisive battle at Naseby in 1644, it was here that the new red army had squashed King Charles 1st army with the griffin clan making up most of the dragoons brigade.IT WAS BUILT IN 1135 BY THE GENERATION OF MEILER FITZ HENRY(SEE EARLY WELSH KINGS)AND THE LAST REMAINS FELL IN 1888.
• PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (3 KB)
  THIS IS MUCH HADHAM CHURCH IN HERTSFORDSHIRE WERE THE GIFFIN FAMILY WERE MEMBERS
• GIFFEN CEMETRY GIFFEN USA (170 KB)
  A SIGN IN GIFFEN COUNTY GIFFEN USA
• QUEEN MARY OF SCOTLAND EXECUTION (160 KB)
  BEFORE MARY DIED A JOHN GIFFEN AND AN ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL SAILED TO FRANCE WITH THE PRESBYTERIEN CHURCH RELICS WHICH WERE NOT SAFE IN ENGLAND.ON THERE RETURN A CAMPBELL WAS PRISONED IN LOCHLEVEN CASTLE
• LITTLE DUNNOW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1840 (41 KB)
  THE LITTDUNNOW CHURCH IN HERTFORDSHIRE
• OHIO CEMETRY (63 KB)
  OHIO CEMETRY WITH BURIED GIFFENS
• KINTYRE SCOTLAND (288 KB)
  THIS WAS THE SAFE HAVEN WERE PERSECUTED GIFFENS FLED DURING THE PERSECUTION
• THE GIFFEN FAMILY PRESBYTERIAN BIBLE (13 KB)
  THIS IS THE BIBLE OF THE GIFFIEN FAMILY FROM HERTSFORDSHIRE
• AMERICA EARLY SETTLEMENTS (21 KB)
  A MAP OF AMERICA
• MAP OF DEPTFORD (26 KB)
  DEPTFORD WERE THOMAS GIFFEN HELD A LARGE ESTATE
• THE IRISH GRIFFIN (126 KB)
  THE CASTLE GRIFFIN IN BALLYGRIFFIN
• MAP OF OHIO (131 KB)
  OLD MAP OF OHIO AMERICA
• ORIGINAL CENSUS RECORD (647 KB)
  WILLIAM JNR AND WILLIAM SNR GIFFIN HERTSFORDSHIRE
• ROBERT GIFFEN AND MARY BANE GRAVE MARKER (142 KB)
  THE GRAVESTONE IN AMERICA
• GIFFEN ESTATE SCOTLAND (778 KB)
  A ORIGINAL RECORD TO THE GIFFEN ESTATE IN SCOTLAND
• ANDREW GIFFENS IMIGRATION RECORD (745 KB)
  FROM SCOTLAND TO AMERICA 1700
• REFERENCE 1 (1097 KB)
  BALLYGRIFFIN CASTLE IRELAND
• thomas giffin deptford london (4657 KB)
  thomas giffin who owned 65 houses and over twenty pubs went bank-rupt
• MARY BANES GRAVESTONE (130 KB)
  MARY BANES GRAVE MARKER IN AMERICA
• sir robert giffin (816 KB)
  a reference to the late sir robert giffin
• JOHN AND MARGARET BAN GRAVESTONE (104 KB)
  THE GOOD FRIEND AND FAMILY TO ROBERT GIFFIN IN AMERICA
• THE COFFEE HOUSE DEPTFORD (822 KB)
  ONE OF MANY BUSINESS OWNED BY THOMAS GIFFIN OF DEPTFORD

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• ROBERT GIFFEN AND MARY BANE (30 KB)
  A FAMILY TREE OF THE FAMOUS ROBERT GIFFEN AND MARY BANE WHO LEFT SCOTLAND AROUND THE LATE 1700S
• ROBERT AND MARY BANES WILL (4 KB)
  THIS IS THE WILL OF ROBERT GIFFEN AND MARY BANE
• THE GIFFIN CONNECTION WITH QUEEN NESTA AND WALES (16 KB)
  THIS THE FIRST REFERENCE TO A GRYFFYDD AND GRIFFIN IN WALES.THE SCANDANAVIAN VIKINGS INVADED WALES AND OUR NAME GRIFFIN WAS FIRST RECORD WITH REFERENCES TO BE TRACED
• the royal family tree (3 KB)
  the british royal family from 1200 to 1800
• THE WELSH CONNECTION (43 KB)
  THIS IS THE FIRST REFERENCE TO OUR FAMILY NAME
• JAMES GYFFEN KNIGHTED AND THE KNIGHTS FEE (3 KB)
  A LIST OF THE KNIGHTS FEE,A JAMES GYFFIN WAS KNIGHTED IN SCOTLAND BY JAMES V BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 1542

Related Links

• robert giffin and mary bane
• THE AMERICAN GIFFEN COUNTY
• Giffen Memorial Elementary School
• GRIFFITH-GRIFFIN-GRIFFIS Surname Project
• UK CENSUS RECORDS
• domesdaybook
• THE MUSTER ROLL JOHN ELDER GIFFEN 1630
• SCOTTISH FAMILY HISTORY