Gear Family History
- Gear Name Meaning
- English: nickname from Middle English gere ‘fit of passion’ (see Geary 3). German: possibly an altered spelling of Gier.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 208,622 Historical Documents with Gear on Ancestry
- 58,678 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 52,927 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,987 Military Records
- 4,347 Immigration Records
- 83,683 Member Trees
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Number of Gear families
 96 - 190  33 - 95 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gear families
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32 - 61 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gear census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Gear census records
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