Gildea Family History
Gildea Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Dhé
‘son of the servant of God’, from Dia ‘God’. The name
originated with a monastic family in Donegal in the 11th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gildea
Name Distribution of Gildea Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gildea families
 22 - 42  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gildea families
|
12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gildea census records
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Gildea Family Origin
Gildea Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gildea Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Gildea
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