Garner Family History
Garner Name Meaning
English: from Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old
French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative
of granum ‘grain’). It may have been a topographic name for
someone who lived near a barn or granary, or a metonymic occupational
name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a
granary.English: variant of Warner 1, from a central Old
French form.English: reduced form of Gardener.South German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German
garn ‘thread’; by extension, an occupational name for a
fisherman.Altered spelling of Gerner.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Garner
Name Distribution of Garner Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Garner families
 822 - 1,641  275 - 821 |
 1 - 274  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Garner families
|
12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Garner census records
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Garner Family Origin
Garner Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Garner Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Garner Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Garner census records
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Military Service by Garner
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