Garness Family History
- Garness Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Gardnes, probably from Old Norse garðr ‘fence’ + nes ‘headland’. English (Worcester): variant spelling of Garniss, of uncertain origin, perhaps a derivative of Old French gernon ‘moustache’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,139 Historical Documents with Garness on Ancestry
- 4,982 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,142 Census and Voter Lists
- 286 Military Records
- 320 Immigration Records
- 4,409 Member Trees
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Number of Garness families
 20 - 37  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Garness families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Garness 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
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