Gard Family History
- Gard Name Meaning
- French: metonymic occupational name for a gardener, from the objective case (gard) of Old French gardin ‘garden’. English: variant spelling of Guard. Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead so named, from Old Norse garðr ‘farm’. Swedish (Gård): topographic or ornamental name from gård ‘farm’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 261,450 Historical Documents with Gard on Ancestry
- 82,153 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 47,144 Census and Voter Lists
- 12,232 Military Records
- 4,748 Immigration Records
- 115,173 Member Trees
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Number of Gard families
 98 - 194  33 - 97 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gard families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gard 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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from 1881 CA Census Data
Gard census records
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