Gold Family History
- Gold Name Meaning
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from modern German Gold, Yiddish gold ‘gold’. In North America it is often a reduced form of one of the many compound ornamental names of which Gold is the first element. English and German: from Old English, Old High German gold ‘gold’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in gold, i.e. a refiner, jeweler, or gilder, or as a nickname for someone who either had many gold possessions or bright yellow hair. English: from an Old English personal name Golda (or the feminine Golde), which persisted into the Middle Ages as a personal name. The name was in part a byname from gold ‘gold’, and in part a short form of the various compound names with this first element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 650,382 Historical Documents with Gold on Ancestry
- 244,289 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 139,629 Census and Voter Lists
- 32,963 Military Records
- 36,243 Immigration Records
- 197,258 Member Trees
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Number of Gold families
 241 - 479  81 - 240 |
 1 - 80  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gold families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Gold 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
Gold census records
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