Gainey Family History
- Gainey Name Meaning
- Irish (mainly Connacht): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Geigheannaigh ‘descendant of Géibheannach’ or Mac Géibheannaigh ‘son of Géibheannach’, a byname meaning ‘fettered’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 145,146 Historical Documents with Gainey on Ancestry
- 50,547 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 21,406 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,248 Military Records
- 1,224 Immigration Records
- 66,721 Member Trees
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Number of Gainey families
 32 - 61  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gainey census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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