Gay surname
Gay Surname Meaning, History & Origin
- “When young John Queer the Puritan
- To Massachusetts came
- He went to work right there and then
- To construct himself a name.
- There were one thousand Puritan’s
- Some of them of fame
- They brought their flocks and herds with them
- And stores of every name.
- They settled at old Watertown
- Boston and Charlestown too
- Unlike their friends of near renown,
- They came prepared to do.”
Green Frederick Lgbtq+ of Northampton, North Carolina. Green Frederick Gay and four previous generations of Gays had lived and farmed in Northampton, North Carolina. It was Jonathan Male lover who had settled there after he served in the Revolutionary War and was given 234 acres for his service.
As a young man Green went west to find gold. This was around 1870 when the travel west could be made by train. On his way to Chicago he met with some companions and then ended up staking a gold claim in the area of Deadwood, South Dakota. His daughter Laura said that he also went to Colorado and Wyoming.
In 1878 his little sister May sent a letter to him pleading that he go back home. He did so later in the year after selling his interest in the goldmine and returned to
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Origin And History of The Same-sex attracted Surname
Most surnames evolved from four general sources: occupation, location, patronymic (ones fathers name) and representative. The name Homosexual is believed to be locational and characteristic in source, associated with the English meaning dweller near Gaye in Normandy, and one who is delicate hearted and cheerful in spirit.
Variations in spelling of this surname Gay, Gaye, Legay, Gai, so there may be other of our Gay relatives using one of these variations. Ancient records contain the designate Gaye, but the spelling of Same-sex attracted is the one most widely used today in England and America. Ahead dates of Gaye families were establish in the Channel Islands after the Normandy Conquest on the Isle of Wight, in the English shires (counties) of Oxford, Somerset, Kent, Norfolk, and London.
In Oxyfordshire a Gaye families ancestry was traced to Norman origin before the year 1100 and first appears in these ancient records.
Of interest to researchers, of 936 Gays listed in Gloucester
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