Ginger Family History
Ginger Name Meaning
German: habitational name for someone from Gingen or Giengen in
Württemberg.English: from Middle English
gingivere, gyngure, gingere ‘ginger’, hence a
metonymic occupational name for a dealer in spices, or possibly a
nickname for someone with reddish hair or a fiery temperament.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Ginger
Name Distribution of Ginger Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ginger families
 56 - 110  19 - 55 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ginger census records
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Ginger Family Origin
Ginger Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Ginger Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ginger census records
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Military Service by Ginger
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