Gomery Commission, Inquiry Into The Canadian Federal Sponsorship Program
Gomery is a rare surname found mainly in the United Kingdom, France and North America. In some cases Gomery has arisen by a process of aphaeresis, where the ''Mont-'' has gradually been lost from the surname Montgomery (surname), Montgomery, a place name in Normandy. This place name is already associated with the first name Gomery and means "Gomery's hill". Gomery was the name of the owner, originally ''Gumaric'', Germanic personal name, that is a compound of two elements: ''guma'' "man" (Old English ''guma''; ''brȳdeguma'' > bridegroom; German: ''Bräutigam'') and ''ric'' "power" (Old English ''rīc'' in "bishopric"). This Germanic name still survives today in the German first name Gumarich. In England in the 18th century, it was concentrated in the county of Worcestershire and had frequent variants as Gumery or Gummery. By the time of the 1881 census of England and Wales it was still concentrated in the English Midlands, Midlands region, but had spread to other industrial centres ...
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Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ...
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