Gadway Family History
- Gadway Name Meaning
- Probably an Americanized form of the French name Gadoin, from a personal name of Germanic origin, composed of the elements wadi ‘pledge’, ‘security’ + wini ‘friend’. Alternatively, it may be an Americanized form of Gadaud (see Gadoury) or some other name with the same first element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,202 Historical Documents with Gadway on Ancestry
- 1,973 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,750 Census and Voter Lists
- 180 Military Records
- 45 Immigration Records
- 5,254 Member Trees
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Number of Gadway families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
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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 the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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