Researching John Garrett
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The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Garrett on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Garrett and the Garrett Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Garrett Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Garrett family tree.
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Garrett Family History Databases
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Garrett Forums
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Miscellaneous Garrett Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on John Garrett. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called John Garrett
John Garrett (American football)
John Morgan Garrett (born March 2, 1965) is an American football coach and former wide receiver. He is the former head football coach at Lafayette College, a position he assumed December 21, 2016 after spending one season as the offensive coordinator for the University of Richmond. He was also a professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cincinnati Bengals and in the World League of American Football (WLAF) for the San Antonio Riders. He played college football at Columbia University and Princeton University.
Source: John Garrett (American football), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
John Garrett (Australian politician)
John Garrett (1805 – 21 May 1885) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born at Whitehaven to mariner Thomas Garrett and Jane Ruddick. Around 1827 he married Sarah Stafford, with whom he had eleven children. A painter and plumber, he migrated to Australia in 1840, and eventually became a newspaper proprietor, running the Alpine Pioneer and the Kiandra Advertiser. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Shoalhaven, serving until his resignation to become a police magistrate at Scone in 1861. Garrett died at Woollahra in 1885.
Thomas Garrett, one of his sons, was also a member of the Legislative Assembly, as member for Monaro, Shoalhaven and Camden.
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