Barr Family History
Barr Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of
various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and
Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height’, ‘hill’ or a
British cognate of this.English: topographic name for
someone who lived by a gateway or barrier, from Middle English, Old
French barre ‘bar’, ‘obstruction’.English (of
Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in
northern France called Barre. See Barre.English:
habitational name from any of various places in England called
Barr, for example Great Barr in the West Midlands, named with
the Celtic element barro ‘height’, ‘hill’.English:
from the vocabulary word barr ‘bar’, ‘pole’, either a metonymic
occupational name for a maker of bars, or perhaps a nickname for a
tall, thin man.Irish: from Ó Bairr, Donegal form of
Ó Báire (see Barry 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Barr
Name Distribution of Barr Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Barr families
 306 - 609  103 - 305 |
 1 - 102  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barr families
|
1,169 - 2,336 390 - 1,168 |
1 - 389 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Barr census records
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Barr Family Origin
Barr Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Barr Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Barr Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Barr census records
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Military Service by Barr
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