Last name: GENTRY
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GENTRY : This last name is indexed 65,193 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
GENTRY : English (Essex and Middlesex): nickname from Middle English Old French genterie ‘nobility of birth or character’. Compare Gentle.
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