Gedney Family History
- Gedney Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire, probably so named from an Old English personal name G?da or Gydda (genitive -n) + eg ‘island’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 75,081 Historical Documents with Gedney on Ancestry
- 14,307 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,240 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,610 Military Records
- 1,172 Immigration Records
- 46,752 Member Trees
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Number of Gedney families
 30 - 58  11 - 29 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gedney families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gedney 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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