Gilling Family History
Gilling Name Meaning
from a variant of the personal name
Julian.habitational name from either of two places in
North Yorkshire, Gilling East and Gilling West, named in Old English
as ‘(settlement of) the people (Old English ingas) of a man
called G¯thia or Getla’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gilling
Name Distribution of Gilling Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gilling families
 67 - 132  23 - 66 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Gilling last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gilling census records
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Gilling Family Origin
Gilling Emigration Information (US)
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Gilling Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gilling census records
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Military Service by Gilling
Message Board about Gilling
7 Threads, 19
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Gilling.
Threads: 7 - Messages: 19
| Thread | Author | Replies | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Bissett | | ila619 | 3 |
| GILLING LONDON | | G_Gilling | 0 |
| Gillings of Somerset |  | Lesleyshiner | 1 |
| Gilling | | ila619 | 8 |
| gilling/rodgers | | 0 | |
| gilling origin | | kmstratton | 0 |
| Beales | | ila619 | 0 |
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