Gidney
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Gidney is a family name adopted by an off shoot of the Gedney family of Massachusetts. This branch of the family settled in upstate New York and, following the war of independence, migrated to Canada, where they changed their name to Gidney and established themselves in Nova Scotia. People with the name Gidney include:
- Francis Gidney (1890-1928), leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom
- Sir Henry Gidney (1873 - 1942), English research scholar and a lecturer in ophthalmology
[edit] Other uses
- Gidney was also the name of one of the Moon Men on the American animated television program Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Gidney's is also a well known fish market in the Montreal/laval region of Quebec. Marley Gidney
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