Gohr Family History
- Gohr Name Meaning
- from Middle Low German gor ‘quagmire’, ‘bog’, an element in various habitational names from which the surname may have arisen, including Gohr near Neuss; alternatively, it may simply be a topographic name for someone living near a bog. in eastern Germany, possibly from Polish gora ‘mountain’ or gor ‘fire’, ‘burning’ (denoting cleared forest), elements contained in various fieldnames and place names.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 23,421 Historical Documents with Gohr on Ancestry
- 14,474 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,589 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,174 Military Records
- 945 Immigration Records
- 4,239 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gohr census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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