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GIFFEN: Genealogic Family History of the Descendants of Robert Giffen & Mary Bane Giffen, settlers at Big Spring, PA, 1777. 1927

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By Joseph W. Giffin

This book contains the origin and genealogic history of the Scottish Giffen family and the descendants of Robert Giffen and Mary Bane Giffen, who were settlers at Big Spring, Pennsylvania in 1777. Giffen railroad Station about twenty miles south of Glascow, Scotland, and was around what was originally known as the Griffen Estate, about 885 acres of land before it was divided in 1923. About one mile east of the Station is the site of  where The Giffen Castle once stood. Two miles west of the Station is the Giffen House - a large, stone, thirty-five room house.

( 174p., Illus, Index, 1927)