Gaynor Family History
Gaynor Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag
Fhionnbhairr ‘son of Fionnbharr’, a personal name composed
of fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ + barr ‘top’, ‘head’.Welsh and English: from the female personal name Gaenor (a
form of Welsh Gwenhwyfar, a compound of gwen ‘fair’,
‘white’ + (g)wyf ‘smooth’, ‘yielding’ + fawr
‘large’. This was the name of King Arthur’s queen Guinevere).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gaynor
Name Distribution of Gaynor Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gaynor families
 74 - 146  25 - 73 |
 1 - 24  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gaynor families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gaynor census records
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Gaynor Family Origin
Gaynor Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gaynor Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Gaynor Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gaynor census records
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Military Service by Gaynor
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