Gummery is a relatively rare

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extant mainly in the

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and

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. In England in the 18th century it was concentrated in the county of

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and is a misspelling of Gomery or Gumery. By the time of the 1881

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of England and Wales it was still concentrated in the

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region, but had spread to other industrial centres in the countr

In the 1881 census of England and Wales there were 98 people recorded with the surname Gummery. In 2002 there were 242 persons with the surname Gummery in England and Wales, making it the 18,859th most common surname.

People with the surname Gummery

*Henry Gummery (1832–1912) a British Victorian era, Victorian artist of

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*Edward, Elizabeth and Ann Gummery a family who were murdered in

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, England in 1780, together with Elizabeth's brother, Thomas Sheen. The murderer and the reason for their murder has never been discovered, but it may have been linked to the

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in the area for private us

* Walter Gummery (1900–1974), English footballer

As a place name

*Gummery's Alley, Dorset Street,

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is mentioned in "Boyle's 'View of London, and its Environs'" published in 1799. *Gummery Street located in the suburb of

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, in the City of Bayswater, northeast of

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