Gage Family History
Gage Name Meaning
English: from Middle English, Old French ga(u)ge
‘measure’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for an
assayer, an official who was in charge of checking weights and
measures.English and French: from Middle English, Old French
gage ‘pledge’, ‘surety’ (against which money was lent), and
therefore a metonymic occupational name for a moneylender or usurer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gage
Name Distribution of Gage Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gage families
 238 - 474  80 - 237 |
 1 - 79  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gage families
|
27 - 52 10 - 26 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gage census records
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Gage Family Origin
Gage Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gage Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Gage families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Gage Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gage census records
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Military Service by Gage
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