Gerrish Family History
Gerrish Name Meaning
English: nickname for an unpredictable, wayward person, from
Middle English gerysshe ‘wild’, ‘changeable’. Compare
Geary.Possibly an altered spelling of German
Gerisch, a variant of Giersch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gerrish
Name Distribution of Gerrish Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gerrish families
 95 - 188  32 - 94 |
 1 - 31  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gerrish families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gerrish census records
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Gerrish Family Origin
Gerrish Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gerrish Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gerrish census records
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Military Service by Gerrish
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