Beer Family History
Beer Name Meaning
English (West Country): habitational name from any of the forty
or so places in southwestern England called Beer(e) or Bear(e). Most
of these derive their names from the West Saxon dative case,
beara, of Old English bearu ‘grove’, ‘wood’ (the
standard Old English dative bearwe being preserved in
Barrow). Some may be from Old English b?r ‘swine
pasture’.North German and Dutch: from Middle Low German
bare, Middle Dutch bere ‘bear’, applied as a
nickname for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way, or as
a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept a performing
bear. Alternatively, it could have been a habitational name for
someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a bear, or
from a Germanic personal name with this as the first element. See also
Baer, Bahr.Respelling of Swiss German Bier.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Beer
Name Distribution of Beer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Beer families
 721 - 1,440  241 - 720 |
 1 - 240  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Beer families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Beer census records
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Beer Family Origin
Beer Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Beer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Beer census records
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