Byers Family History
Byers Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: topographic name for someone who
lived by a cattleshed, Middle English byre, or a habitational
name with the same meaning, from any of several places named with Old
English b¯re, for example Byers Green in County Durham or
Byres near Edinburgh.Americanized spelling of German
Bayers.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Byers Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Byers families
 147 - 291  50 - 146 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Byers families
|
111 - 219 38 - 110 |
1 - 37 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Byers census records
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Byers Family Origin
Byers Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Byers Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Byers Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Byers census records
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Military Service by Byers
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