Garner Family History
- Garner Name Meaning
- English: from Anglo-Norman French gerner ‘granary’ (Old French grenier, from Late Latin granarium, a derivative of granum ‘grain’). It may have been a topographic name for someone who lived near a barn or granary, or a metonymic occupational name for someone in charge of the stores kept in a granary. English: variant of Warner 1, from a central Old French form. English: reduced form of Gardener. South German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German garn ‘thread’; by extension, an occupational name for a fisherman. Altered spelling of Gerner.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,430,824 Historical Documents with Garner on Ancestry
- 801,957 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 420,984 Census and Voter Lists
- 78,645 Military Records
- 26,364 Immigration Records
- 1,102,874 Member Trees
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Number of Garner families
 822 - 1,641  275 - 821 |
 1 - 274  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Garner families
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70 - 137 24 - 69 |
1 - 23 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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