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Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Gale			A Gael or Scot; a stranger
Galt			A bush of hair
Gardener			the occupation
Gardiner			Gairden
Gardner			the occupation
Garfield			Saxon, Garwian, to prepare
Garo			British, signifies fierce, keen, sharp, rough, a rough place
Garow			British, signifies fierce, keen, sharp, rough, a rough place
Garret			Gerard
Garrow			British, signifies fierce, keen, sharp, rough, a rough place
Gayer			A gray-hound
Gaylor			Geller, loud-voiced
Gear			one who took charge of and superintended the gear
Geer			one who took charge of and superintended the gear
Gerry			Gerard
Gibbs			Gilbert
Giddings			son of Gid or Gideon
Gilkinson			son of Gilkin
Gillet			Guillot, the French diminutive for William
Gillett			Guillot, the French diminutive for William
Gillman			Gaulman, a Gael, or Brookman, from gill, a brook
Gilroy			Gile-roimh, a running footman attendant on a Highland chieftain
Gilson			The son of Gil or Gilbert
Godwin			God or good, Saxon, and win, conqueror,
Goldsmith			A name of trade
Goodall			Good hall, a fine hall
Goodhue			good and Hugh
Goodsir			Goodsir
Goodsire			Goodsire
Goodyear			Goodyear
Gorman			A native of Germany
Gospatrick			Patrick, a title given to the Earl of March, of Scotland
Grace			Le Gros the fat or large
Grant			Gritty or Gravelly
Greer			Gregor
Grey			Gray
Grier			Greigh a herd and fear a man
Grierson			son of Greer or Gregor
Griffin			Griffwn, in Welsh, is applied to a man having a crooked nose, like a hawk's bill
Grissell			Grisyl, in the Cornish British, signifies sharp, keen
Grover			Groover, graver, one who carves or engraves
Guelph			A wolf or welf
Guiot			son of Guy
Gunning			son of Gunn
Gunter			native of Gaunt or Ghent
Guthrie			Guthrie, a town in Scotland
Guy			term given in Gaul to the mistletoe, or cure-all

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