Gard Family History
Gard Name Meaning
French: metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from the
objective case (gard) of Old French gardin ‘garden’.English: variant spelling of Guard.Norwegian:
habitational name from a farmstead so named, from Old Norse
garðr ‘farm’.Swedish (Gård): topographic or
ornamental name from gård ‘farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gard
Name Distribution of Gard Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gard families
 98 - 194  33 - 97 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gard families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gard census records
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Gard Family Origin
Gard Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gard Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gard census records
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Military Service by Gard
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