Gladson Family History
- Gladson Name Meaning
- English: unexplained. In form, this appears to be a patronymic from Glad, but there is no evidence that this was ever a personal name. It may be an English variant of Scottish Gladstone. The surname appears to have died out in Britain.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 32,870 Historical Documents with Gladson on Ancestry
- 9,316 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,424 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,047 Military Records
- 227 Immigration Records
- 15,856 Member Trees
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Number of Gladson families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Gladson families
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19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Gladson families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gladson census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Gladson census records
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- All Gladson
- 46
- Confederate
- 22
- Union
- 24
from the Civil War Service Records
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