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Gillespie Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille
Easbuig (Scottish), Mac Giolla Easpaig (Irish), patronymics
from a byname meaning ‘servant of the bishop’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Gillespie Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Gillespie families
 316 - 630  106 - 315 |
 1 - 105  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gillespie families
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176 - 349 59 - 175 |
1 - 58 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gillespie families
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684 - 1,366 229 - 683 |
1 - 228 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Gillespie Immigration Information
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Gillespie Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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