Gunn Family History
Gunn Name Meaning
Scottish: name of a clan associated with Caithness, derived
from the Old Norse personal name Gunnr (or the feminine form
Gunne), a short form of any of various compound names with the
first element gunn ‘battle’.Scottish: sometimes an
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuinn ‘son of the servant
of the brown one’ (see Dunn). (According to Woulfe a name of
the same form also existed in Sligo, Ireland.English:
metonymic occupational name for someone who operated a siege engine or
cannon, perhaps also a nickname for a forceful person, from Middle
English gunne, gonne ‘ballista’, ‘cannon’, ‘gun’. The
term originated as a humorous application of the Scandinavian female
personal name Gunne or Gunnhildr.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Gunn
Name Distribution of Gunn Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gunn families
 328 - 654  110 - 327 |
 1 - 109  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gunn families
|
597 - 1,191 200 - 596 |
1 - 199 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gunn census records
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Gunn Family Origin
Gunn Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Gunn Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Gunn Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gunn census records
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Military Service by Gunn
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