Carrier Family History
Carrier Name Meaning
English and southern French: from Middle English, Old French
car(r)ier (Late Latin carrarius, a derivative of
carrum ‘cart’, ‘wagon’, of Gaulish origin); in English an
occupational name for someone who transported goods, in French for a
cartwright.French: occupational name for a stonemason or
quarryman, carrier.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Carrier
Name Distribution of Carrier Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carrier families
 36 - 70  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carrier families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Carrier census records
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Carrier Family Origin
Carrier Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Carrier Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Carrier census records
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Military Service by Carrier
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