Gent Family History
Gent Name Meaning
English and French: nickname, possibly sometimes applied
ironically, from Middle English gente, Old French
gent(il) ‘well born’, ‘noble’, ‘courteous’. Compare
Gentle.German and English: habitational name for someone
from Ghent in Flanders, French name Gand.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gent
Name Distribution of Gent Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gent families
 194 - 385  65 - 193 |
 1 - 64  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gent families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gent census records
You can see how Gent families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Gent Family Origin
Gent Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Gent families immigrated
to the United States.
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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 New York Passenger Lists
Gent Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gent census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Gent ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Gent
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