Gault Family History
Gault Name Meaning
English: nickname from the wild boar, Middle English
galte, gaute, gault (Old Norse
goltr). Wild boars were common in the British Isles from the
earliest times, and became extinct only with the clearing of the large
tracts of forest which formerly covered the country; hunting them was
a favorite pastime in the Middle Ages.French: from
Germanic walþu- ‘wood’, ‘forest’; a topographic name for
someone who lived in or near a wood, or a habitational name for
someone from any of the places named with this word, for example Le
Gault in Loir-et-Cher, Marne, and Eure-et-Loir.
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Name Distribution of Gault Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gault families
 69 - 135  24 - 68 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gault families
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20 - 38 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gault families
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58 - 113 20 - 57 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gault Family Origin
Gault Immigration Information
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Gault Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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