Gammon Family History
Gammon Name Meaning
variant of Game.from Anglo-Norman French
gambon ‘ham’, a diminutive of gambe, Norman-Picard form
of Old French jambe ‘leg’ (Late Latin gamba), hence
probably a nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the legs or
gait.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gammon
Name Distribution of Gammon Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gammon families
 176 - 349  59 - 175 |
 1 - 58  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gammon families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gammon census records
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Gammon Family Origin
Gammon Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gammon Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Gammon
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