Gorman Family History
Gorman Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gormáin
and Ó Gormáin ‘son (or descendant) of Gormán’,
a personal name from a diminutive of gorm ‘dark blue’, ‘noble’.
Compare O’Gorman.English: from the Middle English
personal name Gormund, Old English Garmund, composed
of the elements gar ‘spear’ + mund
‘protection’.English: topographic name for someone who lived by
or on a triangular patch of land (see Gore).German
(Görmann): variant of Gehrmann.German
(Görmann): of Slavic origin, occupational name for a miner,
from Slavic góra ‘mountain’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gorman
Name Distribution of Gorman Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gorman families
 399 - 796  134 - 398 |
 1 - 133  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gorman families
|
272 - 542 91 - 271 |
1 - 90 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gorman census records
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Gorman Family Origin
Gorman Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gorman Emigration Information (AU)
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Gorman Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gorman census records
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Military Service by Gorman
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