Gadbois Family History
- Gadbois Name Meaning
- French: variant spelling of Gadebois (Artois), itself a variant of Gâtebois, a topographic name composed of the elements gâté ‘spoilt’, ‘laid waste’ + bois ‘wood’. In New England, this has been rendered as Wood in English.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 44,188 Historical Documents with Gadbois on Ancestry
- 17,186 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,935 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,598 Military Records
- 1,193 Immigration Records
- 16,276 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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