- Gummery
Gummery is a relatively rare
surname extant mainly in theUnited Kingdom ,North America andAustralia .In England in the 18th century it was concentrated in the county of
Worcestershire , and was often misspelt asGomery orGumery . By the time of the 1881census of England and Wales it was still concentrated in theMidlands region, but had spread to other industrial centres in the country [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gomery/1881.html] . In the 1881 census of England and Wales there were 98 people recorded with the surname Gummery. In 2002 there were 242 persons with the surname Gummery in England and Wales, making it the 18,859th most common surname.People with the Surname Gummery
*Henry Gummery (1832-1912) a British Victorian artist of
still life andlandscape art . [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gomery/hengumm.html]*Edward, Elizabeth and Ann Gummery a family who were murdered in
Berrow, Worcestershire , England in 1780, together with Elizabeth's brother, Thomas Sheen. The murderer and the reason for their murder has never been discovered, but it may have been linked to theenclosure ofcommon land in the area for private use. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gomery/murder.html]As a Placename
*Gummery's Alley, Dorset Street,
Marylebone ,London - mentioned in Boyle's "View of London, and it's Environs" published in 1799.*Gummery Street located in the suburb of Bedford, in the City of Bayswater, north east of
Perth, Western Australia . Bayswater was granted city status in 1983. It covers an area of 32.7 km² and in June 2004 the estimated population was 56,565.External links
* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gomery/index.html Gummery genealogy, family history and one-name study] . What is a
one-name study ?
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