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gentry Name Meaning and History

English: nickname, sometimes perhaps ironic, from Middle English, Old French genterie ‘nobility of birth or character’. Compare Gentle.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the gentry family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of gentry Families in the US in 1920
Number of gentry families
 240-478
 81-239		 1-80
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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