Gloster Family History
Gloster Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Gloucester. The place
originally bore the British name Glevum (apparently from a
cognate of Welsh gloyw ‘bright’), to which was added the Old
English element ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin
castra ‘legionary camp’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gloster Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gloster families
 35 - 68  12 - 34 |
 1 - 11  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gloster families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gloster census records
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Gloster Family Origin
Gloster Emigration Information (US)
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Gloster Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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