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football57 | 04:55 Tue 29th May 2007 | Family & Relationships
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where does the last name gammell come from?
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according to ancestry.com :
English: from the Old Norse byname Gamall meaning �old�, which was occasionally used in North England during the Middle Ages as a personal name.
or an anglicised version of the German name Gammel.
12:24 Tue 29th May 2007
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it must be a patrinymic then, a name derived from a Christian name, like Johnson is son of John, so Gammell was originally a first name but changed to a surname to denote decendants of someone called Gammell.

Probably also related to Gemmell as in Archie Gemmell, one of my late fathers fave foottie players.
12:26 Tue 29th May 2007
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I have spelt patronymic wrong sorry
12:27 Tue 29th May 2007

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