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miner Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for someone who built mines, either for the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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miner Family Facts

Distribution of miner Families in the US in 1920
Number of miner families
 273-543
 92-272		 1-91
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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