Gallen Family History
- Gallen Name Meaning
- Northern Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Galláin ‘descendant of Gallán’, a personal name from a diminutive of gall ‘rooster’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 41,728 Historical Documents with Gallen on Ancestry
- 18,016 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,996 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,585 Military Records
- 2,281 Immigration Records
- 8,850 Member Trees
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Number of Gallen families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gallen families
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gallen census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Gallen families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Gallen census records
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