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Gatewood Name Meaning
English: habitational name of uncertain origin. There are places
called Gate Wood End, South Yorkshire, Gatewood Hill, Hampshire, and
Gatewood House Farm, Leicestershire. The first is named from an Old
Norse geyt ‘rushing stream or spring’; the second is from Old
English gat ‘goat’; the etymology of the Leicestershire
place name is not known. adm; UK 3, 1881 British census has 5.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gatewood Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gatewood families
 55 - 108  19 - 54 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gatewood families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gatewood Family Origin
Gatewood Immigration Information
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Gatewood Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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