Gamel Family History
- Gamel Name Meaning
- Southern French: from Old French gamel ‘oatmeal’, which was used for cleaning and degreasing woolen cloth; the surname may therefore have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for a textile worker or perhaps for a miller or baker.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 45,201 Historical Documents with Gamel on Ancestry
- 9,306 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,013 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,678 Military Records
- 796 Immigration Records
- 28,408 Member Trees
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Number of Gamel families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gamel families
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gamel 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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