Barrera Family History
Barrera Name Meaning
Spanish and Catalan: topographic name for someone who lived
near a gate or fence, from Spanish and Catalan barrera
‘barrier’.topographic name for someone who lived by a clay pit,
Spanish barrera, barrero (a derivative of barro
‘mud’, ‘clay’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Barrera
Name Distribution of Barrera Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Barrera census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Barrera surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
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Barrera Family Origin
Barrera Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Barrera families immigrated
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Barrera Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Barrera census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Barrera ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Barrera
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