Last name gay origin

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• Betsy Gay (1929-2025), American actress and yodeller, born in Waterford, Connecticut, child star in the ‘Our Gang’ films
• Benjamin Stevenson Gay Jr.

  (1980-2024), American NFL and CFL football player who was a running back for the Cleveland Browns in 2001

• John Gay (1924-2017), American Academy Award nominated screenwriter, known for his work on Run Silent, Run Deep and Separate Tables
• Peter Gay (1923-2015), born Peter Joachim Fröhlich, an American educator and writer, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University
• Tyson Gay (b.

  Mary Gay was born the daughter of William and Mary Gay at the Gay family farm in Jones county, Georgia in 1829. Print

• "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". Early immigrants include:
  
  

  Gay Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century

  • John Gay, who landed in Nelson, New Zealand in 1844 aboard the ship Fifeshire
  • Major Gay, who arrived in Auckland, New Zealand aboard the ship "Nimroud" in 1860
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    The Old United Empire Loyalists List. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1976. The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada. Rose Publishing Company, 1885.) ISBN 0-8063-0331-X

  • Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 29th March 2022). Retrieved from https://lebloguedeguyperron.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/130-liste-des-contrats-dengagement-pour-la-nouvelle-france-releves-a-la-rochelle-entre-1634-et-1679/
  • Rubincam, Milton.

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  • Dickinson, F.H., Kirby's Quest for Somerset of 16th of Edward the 3rd London: Harrison and Sons, Printers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, St, Martin's Lane, 1889.
    

    J. Gay, (b. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. 1

    Alternatively, the name could have been derived from the Old French "gal" meaning "full of joy, lighthearted" 2

    Early Origins of the Gay family

    The surname Gay was first found in Surrey where Oswald le Gay was listed in the Pipe Rolls there in 1176.

    1982), American nine-time gold medalist track and field sprinter

  • Rudy Carlton Gay Jr. (b. It is documented that there are several places named “Gay” around the world, including in France and Switzerland. Their name, however, derives from their place of residence prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Gaye le Manche, France.

    This was around 1870 when the travel west could be made by train. His information was broad and his liberality of thought never permitted him to take a circumscribed view of the social discussion or sentiment and yet with a firm conviction and fixed purpose. George Gay, (b. Mary grew up as a southern belle. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)

  • Grove, Sir George, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (AD.

    NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/

  • http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
  • Convict Records of Australia. This suggests that the name might have spread through migration and intermingling of populations over the centuries.

    It is worth noting that surnames have the potential to change and evolve over time.

    Most of these names evolved in the 11th and 12th century, in the time after the Normans introduced their own Norman French language into a country where Old and Middle English had no spelling rules and the languages of the court were French and Latin. 1982), retired American NFL football cornerback

  • Joseph Brian Gay (b. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1839Recovery.htm
  • Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 3rd June 2021).