Gayman Family History
- Gayman Name Meaning
- English: occupational name meaning ‘servant of Gay’. French: from a Germanic personal name Gaidman or Gaidmar, of which the first element is gaida ‘point (of a lance)’. German (Gaymann): variant of Gau 1, reinforced by the addition of man ‘man’. Americanized spelling of German Gehmann (see Gehman).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 27,122 Historical Documents with Gayman on Ancestry
- 7,567 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,646 Census and Voter Lists
- 790 Military Records
- 328 Immigration Records
- 12,791 Member Trees
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Number of Gayman families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gayman census records
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Gayman census records
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