Gortney Family History
- Gortney Name Meaning
- Possibly an altered spelling of German Gort(h)ner, a metonymic occupational name for a miller, from an agent derivative of Low German gorte ‘groats’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,821 Historical Documents with Gortney on Ancestry
- 2,544 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,288 Census and Voter Lists
- 346 Military Records
- 55 Immigration Records
- 5,588 Member Trees
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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