Gall Family History
- Gall Name Meaning
- Scottish, Irish, and English: nickname, of Celtic origin, meaning ‘foreigner’ or ‘stranger’. In the Scottish Highlands the Gaelic term gall was applied to people from the English-speaking lowlands and to Scandinavians; in Ireland the same term was applied to settlers who arrived from Wales and England in the wake of the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century. The surname is also found at an early date in Lincolnshire, where it apparently has a Breton origin, having been introduced by Breton followers of the Norman Conquerors. French, German, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Danish, etc.: from a personal name (Gallus in Latin) which was widespread in Europe during the Middle Ages, due to the cult of a 7th-century Irish monk and missionary, St. Gall. He established a Christian settlement to the south of Lake Constance, which became the monastery later known as St. Gallen. His name was taken into Czech as Havel and into Polish as Gawel, the extra syllable being introduced by analogy with Latin Paulus, which yielded Czech Pavel and Polish Pawel. Hungarian (Gáll): variant of Gál (see Gal).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 442,484 Historical Documents with Gall on Ancestry
- 210,293 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 86,340 Census and Voter Lists
- 16,075 Military Records
- 19,476 Immigration Records
- 110,300 Member Trees
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Number of Gall families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gall families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gall census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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