Where does the surname gilmore orignate from?

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Where does the surname gilmore orignate from?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Gilmore
Scottish and Irish (Ulster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish), patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant of (the Virgin) Mary’.
Irish: in Armagh, reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhura ‘servant of St. Mura (of Fahan, Donegal)’ or, in Sligo, of Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.

Place of
Origin Gilmore Immigrants
Ireland 495
England 235
Scotland 88
Great Britain 72
Canada 7
England;Lancashire 6 Source(s):
www.ancestry.com Gilmore: Irish Occupational Name...In old Ireland, the words gil, kil, maol, and mul designated a follower, devotee, or servant" of someone. Those with the name Gilmore are descended from the "servant of Mary."

http://mizian.com.ne.kr/englishwiz/libra...

I find the history of surnames fascinating:
Surname History

When communities consisted of just a few people, surnames -- last names/family names -- weren't important. As each town acquired more and more Johns and Marys, the need was established for a way to identify each from the other. The Romans had begun the practice of using "given-name + clan-name + family-name" about 300 B.C. In the English-speaking part of the world, the exact date that surnames began to be adopted can't be pinpointed. The Domesday Book compiled by William the Conquerer required surnames, but hereditary surnames are not considered to have been commonplace until the late 1200's.

William Camden wrote in Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine: (1586)

About the yeare of our Lord 1000...surnames began to be taken up in France, and in England about the time of the Conquest, or else a very little before, under King Edward the Confessor, who was all Frenchified...but the French and wee termed them Surnames, not because they are the names of the sire, or the father, but because they are super added to Christian names as the Spanish called them Renombres, as Renames.

Some surnames refer to occupations (Carpenter, Taylor, Brewer, Mason), a practice that was commonplace by the end of the 14th century. Places of residence were also commonly used (Hill, Brook, Forrest, Dale) as a basis for the surname, for reasons that can be easily understood. Less apparent is the rationale behind the adoption of animal references (Wolfe, Fish, Byrd, Katt), although it may have been to identify a similar trait in the bearer of the name (John Fox might have been sly). Relations of those with royal rank often adopted the title as a surname (King, Abbott, Steward, Prince) and colors (Brown, Black, White, Gray) were adopted for less obvious reasoning.

Physical features that were prominent when surnames began to be adopted were also borrowed as an identifier (Long, Short, Beardsly, Stout) as were dispositions of the bearers (Gay, Moody, Sterne, Wise). Sometimes the name told its own story (Lackland, Freeholder, Goodpasture, Upthegrove) and sometimes they might have been selected to elicit envy or sympathy (Rich, Poor, Wise, Armstrong).

I had an uncle whose first name was Gilmore. http://www.genuki.org.uk Gilmore is from the four counties, of Ireland, all my mates named Gilmore have been there, and longford for centuries
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Ryan Dior Rootsweb(free site) has over 75,000 entries in family trees for Gilmore.

Now you have to be very careful not to take everything you see in family trees submitted on any website, free or paid, as fact. The information is submitted by folks like you and me. Most is not documented.
You might see different information on the same person from different submitters and then you will see over and over the same information from different submitters on the same person without documention. Unfortunately, a lot of people are copying without verifying. There are error in trees on the internet.

Put the name Gilmore in the World Connect Block. Once you pull up the trees, if you see anything that interest you, probe on a name and it will take you to a screen that will give you the name and email address of the submitter. This can be a way of making contact with distant family that has information on a particulary family history.

Genealogy is not too concerned with the origin of a surname as the same surname can come from more than one nationality, and not everyone with the same surname is related or has a common ancestor.
The best thing to do is to trace your family history starting with yourself and working back. Anytimg you wish to do this, there are lots of good people on this board that can give you some great tips and advice.

Also since you are looking for the origin of your surname, please see the links below as a warning against peddlers of surname products

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...

http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/faq.ht... must be Edinburgh because there is a lot of addresses
called gilmore st or place or cres. ...the little grassing stool pigeon sh*t... you still alive Gilmore?.. you took the queens shilling ..hope you injoyed spending it?,,,,,,,,, your day will come............................. Gilmour; Gilmore:
From the Irish Gaelic, meaning "servant of the Virgin Mary" Irish.