Beard Family History
Beard Name Meaning
nickname for a bearded man (Middle English, Old
English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish
communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century,
the crucial period for surname formation. There is a place name and
other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old
English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname
would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. As an American
surname, this name has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other
languages, in particular German Bart.habitational name
from a place in Derbyshire, which derives its name by dissimilation
from Old English brerd ‘rim’, ‘bank’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Beard
Name Distribution of Beard Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Beard families
 694 - 1,385  232 - 693 |
 1 - 231  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Beard families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Beard census records
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Beard Family Origin
Beard Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Beard Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Beard families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Beard Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Beard census records
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Military Service by Beard
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