Gallagher Family History
Gallagher Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gallchobhair
‘descendant of Gallchobhar’, a personal name from the elements
gall ‘strange’, ‘foreign’ + cabhair ‘help’,
‘support’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gallagher
Name Distribution of Gallagher Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gallagher families
 940 - 1,878  314 - 939 |
 1 - 313  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gallagher families
|
302 - 602 101 - 301 |
1 - 100 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gallagher census records
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Gallagher Family Origin
Gallagher Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gallagher Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Gallagher families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Gallagher Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gallagher census records
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Military Service by Gallagher
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