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Profiles

  • Agnes Anderson (1685 - bef.1730)
    Agnes Gannaway Birth: about 1685 - New Kent, Virginia Death: Before 1730 - Albemarle, Virginia Married: Thomas Anderson Disputed Origins Seen as daughter of Marmaduke Gannaway & Henrietta ‘Ha...
  • Burrell Gannaway (1808 - d.)
  • Catherine Ann “Kate” Trent (1830 - 1915)
    Catherine "Kate" Ann Lewis Trent (Gannaway) Find A Grave Memorial ID # 122299332 Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : May 15 2020, 5:16:39 UTC
  • John Lancaster Gannaway (1828 - 1862)
    Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : May 15 2020, 5:16:39 UTC
  • Colonel John Gannaway, Jr. (1720 - 1771)
    GEDCOM Note COLONEL JOHN & MARY (MacGREGOR) GANNAWAY JR. John Gannaway Jr. was born on August 2, 1720 in New Kent County, Virginia. Mary (MacGregor) Gannaway was born in 1731 at Aberdeen, Scotland. J...

About the Gannaway surname

origin

Historically and geographically, this surname is traceable from the present day back to at least 15th-century Italy, in the form of GENOA:.. It travelled from Italy via traders and merchants to Southern ports in England, where many settled and the "Genoa" tag evolved to many forms, "Gannaway" being one that stuck well. Research Google for "Gannaway in Italy"......very interesting links to be discovered!

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