Donner Family History
Donner Name Meaning
German: nickname for a loud or irascible man, from Middle High
German doner ‘thunder’ (Old High German thonar).Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental adoption of German Donner
‘thunder’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Donner
Name Distribution of Donner Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Donner families
 44 - 86  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Donner families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Donner census records
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Donner Family Origin
Donner Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Donner Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Donner census records
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Military Service by Donner
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