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Gamelin Family Name

Last updated Dec-2008
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Probable Origins & Usage

  • French  [Day]
  • found only as a family name

Spellings & Alternate Names

  • Gamlah - the Abenaki form of the name
  • Gumlaw - found in the U.S.

Places Family is Found

  • Odanak
  • VT & NY

Earliest Occurrences of the Name

  • 1763 Suzanne Gamelin married Joseph Louis Magwawidobait Gill at Odanak
  • 1768 Joseph Gamelin married Catherine Annance at Odanak.
  • A. Gamelin appears on the Odanak roster of 1812 veterans with heirs in 1844.

Notes

Probably an old Metis family at Odanak. The name appears in St. Francois du Lac parish records from the early 1700s. They used the dit names Launiere & Chateauvieux. There are no males of this surname found in tribal census records of the 1800s.

Biographies, Photos, Artifacts, Genealogies, etc.

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