Gumery
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Gumery is a rare surname extant in the United Kingdom, France and North America.
In England in the 18th century it was concentrated in the county of Worcestershire, and was often misspelt as Gomery or Gummery. By the time of the 1881 census of England and Wales it was still concentrated in the Midlands region, but had spread to other industrial centres in the country [1]. In the 1881 census of England and Wales there were 47 people recorded with the surname Gumery. In 2002 there were 86 persons with the surname Gumery in England and Wales, making it the 36,388th most common surname.
In France the surname Gumery occurs most frequently in the Haute-Savoie region.
[edit] As a Placename
- Gumery [2] is a village in the l'Aube department, Champagne-Ardennes region, of France. In 1999 Gumery had a population of 199 inhabitants.
[edit] People with the Surname Gumery
- Adolphe Ernest Gumery (1861-1943) a French painter, son of Charles Alphonse Achille Gumery. See also [3] (in English) and [4] (in French).
- Charles Alphonse Achille Gumery (1827-1871) a French sculptor whose statues L'Harmonie and La Poesie stand on top of Palais Garnier the old Opéra de Paris. See also [5] (in English) and [6] (in French).
- George Gumery (1887-1912) an engineer's mess steward from Birmingham, England who went down with the Titanic. [7]
