Gannaway Family History
Gannaway Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Janaways, the Middle English
name for someone from the seaport of Genoa in Italy. This was taken as
a plural, but is in fact an English spelling of the Old French
adjectival form, Genoveis, Italian Genovese ‘Genoese’
(see Genovese).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gannaway Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gannaway families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gannaway families
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32 - 62 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gannaway families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gannaway Family Origin
Gannaway Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Gannaway
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Gannaway Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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