Geary Family History
Geary Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gadhra
‘descendant of Gadhra’ (see O’Gara). See also McGeary.English: from a personal name derived from Germanic
ger, gar ‘spear’, a short form of any of various
compound names with this as a first element (see, for example
Garrett).English: nickname for a wayward or capricious
person, from Middle English ge(a)ry ‘fickle’, ‘changeable’,
‘passionate’ (a derivative of gere ‘fit of passion’, apparently
a Scandinavian borrowing).Possibly an altered spelling of
German Gehring or Gehrig.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Geary
Name Distribution of Geary Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Geary families
 180 - 357  61 - 179 |
 1 - 60  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Geary families
|
248 - 494 83 - 247 |
1 - 82 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Geary families
|
15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Geary census records
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Geary Family Origin
Geary Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Geary
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Geary Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Geary census records
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Geary Civil War Service Records
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