Dyer Family History
Dyer Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dyer of cloth, Middle English
dyer (from Old English deag ‘dye’; the verb is a
back-formation from the agent noun). This surname also occurs in
Scotland, but Lister is a more common equivalent there.Irish (Counties Sligo and Roscommon): usually a short
form of MacDyer, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Duibhir ‘son of Duibhir’, a short form of a personal name
composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’ + odhar
‘sallow’, ‘tawny’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dyer
Name Distribution of Dyer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dyer families
 988 - 1,974  330 - 987 |
 1 - 329  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dyer families
|
117 - 232 40 - 116 |
1 - 39 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dyer census records
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Dyer Family Origin
Dyer Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dyer Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Dyer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dyer census records
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Military Service by Dyer
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