Gillian Family History
- Gillian Name Meaning
- English: variant of Julian. Irish (Tyrone and Derry): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gileáin ‘son of Gileán’, a variant of the personal name Gealán, from a diminutive of geal ‘bright’, ‘white’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 65,976 Historical Documents with Gillian on Ancestry
- 21,975 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 18,369 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,382 Military Records
- 1,615 Immigration Records
- 21,635 Member Trees
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Number of Gillian families
 12 - 21  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gillian census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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