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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably an Americanized form of the common Bavarian name Ganghofer, a habitational name for someone from any of the places named Gangkofen in northern Bavaria.
  • John Jacob Gangewere (born 1705 in Bavaria, Germany) and his brother Michael emigrated to Westmoreland County, PA, in 1725.

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