Gilmore Family History
Gilmore Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish (Ulster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish),
patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant of (the Virgin)
Mary’.Irish: in Armagh, reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Giolla Mhura ‘servant of St. Mura (of Fahan, Donegal)’ or, in
Sligo, of Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gilmore
Name Distribution of Gilmore Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gilmore families
 224 - 445  75 - 223 |
 1 - 74  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gilmore families
|
32 - 61 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gilmore census records
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Gilmore Family Origin
Gilmore Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gilmore Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gilmore census records
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Military Service by Gilmore
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