Gapen Family History
Gapen Name Meaning
Respelling of French Gapin, from a diminutive of gap,
a variant of gab ‘joke’, ‘mockery’, presumably applied as a
nickname for a joker.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gapen
Name Distribution of Gapen Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gapen families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gapen census records
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Gapen Family Origin
Gapen Emigration Information (US)
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Gapen Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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