Geary Family History
Geary Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra
‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O’Gara). See also McGeary.English: from a personal name derived from Germanic
ger, gar ‘spear’, a short form of any of various
compound names with this as a first element (see, for example
Garrett).English: nickname for a wayward or capricious
person, from Middle English ge(a)ry ‘fickle’, ‘changeable’,
‘passionate’ (a derivative of gere ‘fit of passion’, apparently
a Scandinavian borrowing).Possibly an altered spelling of
German Gehring or Gehrig.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Geary
Name Distribution of Geary Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Geary families
 248 - 494  83 - 247 |
 1 - 82  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Geary families
|
15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Geary census records
You can see how Geary families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
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Geary Family Origin
Geary Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Geary families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Geary Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Geary families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Geary Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Geary census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Geary ancestors, such as occupation.
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Military Service by Geary
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