Gamm Family History
- Gamm Name Meaning
- German: habitational name for someone from Gamme, near Hamburg, or from a Germanic personal name based on Old High German gaman ‘joy’, ‘fun’, ‘game’. Compare Gammel.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 26,183 Historical Documents with Gamm on Ancestry
- 15,893 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,037 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,117 Military Records
- 849 Immigration Records
- 4,287 Member Trees
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Number of Gamm families
 6 - 10  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gamm census records
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- Germany (28)
- Preußen;Germany (6)
- Great Britain (5)
- Ireland (5)
- Mecklenburg (5)
- Meckl and Schwerin (4)
from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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