Going Family History
- Going Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Ghabhann or Mac Gabhann ‘son of (the) smith’ (see McGowan) or, in some cases, an Anglicized spelling of the French family name Gouin, which has been established in Tipperary since the end of the 17th century. German (Göing): variant of Göding (see Goding).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 139,156 Historical Documents with Going on Ancestry
- 36,935 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 15,579 Census and Voter Lists
- 21,953 Military Records
- 2,050 Immigration Records
- 62,639 Member Trees
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Number of Going families
 17 - 31  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Going families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Going 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 1881 UK Census Data
Going census records
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