What would be the ethnicity of someone with the last name "Gardner"?

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Surname: Gardner
This interesting surname recorded as Garden and Gardyne, both metonymics for a gardner, and Gardener, Gardenner, Gardiner, Gardinor, Gairdnar, Gairner and Gardner, is of French origins!. Recorded widely in England, Ireland, and Scotland, it is both a status and an occupational name, and relates to the head gardner of a noble or even royal house!. Derived from the Northern French word "gardin" and introduced into the British Isles after the Norman Invasion of 1066, it is itself a diminutive of the pre 7th century Germanic word "gard", meaning an enclosure!. The function of the "gardiniere" in medieval times was a very important one!. He was responsible for the kitchen garden, which provided almost the only source of fresh food and herbs, and hence played a critical part in maintaining the health of the household!. The use of the word "gardener" refers to one who tends ornamental lawns and flower beds, and is a later application!. Interesting examples of early surname recordings include: William le Gardinier of the county of Rutland in 1199, William Gardin of Huntingdon in 1218, and John atte Gardyne of Sussex in the Subsidy Tax Rolls of that county in 1296!. Later recordings include: Richard Gardiner, who was a seaman aboard the famous ship "Mayflower" which carried the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World in 1620, but it is understood that returned to England with the ship, and Peter Gardner actually emigrated to the Virginia Colony on the ship "Elizabeth of London" in 1635!. The first recorded spelling of the family name is believed to be that of William del Gardin, in the charters of Oxford in 1183!.

Surname: Walsh
This famous national locational and descriptive nickname surname derives from the pre 7th Century Olde English and Anglo-Saxon word "waelisc", meaning "foreigner" or perhaps more likely in the passage of time, "stranger"!. Be that as it may it is one of the ironies of history that the invaders from North Germany and even the later Vikings, should apparently refer to the people that they conquered or at least drove from their original homes, as 'The Foreigner" and even more so that the name should have stuck!. The surname is popular in many areas and countries, there being a large "Walsh" contingent in Ireland, where it is the fourth most popular surname, and even a small number in France, originally in the Nantes area!. The modern surname is recorded in a wide variety of spellings, including Welch, Welche, Welsh, Walsh, Walshe, Walch, and Wellish!. The early surname development includes examples such as Walter Walsheman of London in 1279, Simon Welshe of Bedford in the year 1279, John Walsh of Roxburgh, Scotland, in 1330, Margery Wellis in the 1327 Pipe Rolls of the county of Essex, and Lawrence Walsh of County Mayo, Ireland in 1588!. The first recorded spelling of the family name is from Ireland!. This is believed to be that of Haylen Walsh, the son of Phillip the Welshman, and dated 1171!. He is recorded as being with Strongbow, earl of Pembroke, in his initial invasion of Ireland in that year!. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Gardner
Last name origins & meanings:
English: reduced form of Gardener!.
Or a translated form of German G?rtner!.

Walsh
Last name origin & meaning:
Irish: Anglicized form (translation) of Breathnach ‘Briton’!. It was used in particular to denote the Welshmen who arrived in Ireland in the wake of Strongbow’s Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170!.Www@QuestionHome@Com