Farr Family History
Farr Name Meaning
English: from Middle English farre ‘bull’, applied as a
nickname for a fierce or lusty man or a metonymic occupational name
for someone who kept a bull.German: nickname from Middle
High German varne, var, with the same meaning as 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Farr
Name Distribution of Farr Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Farr families
 303 - 604  102 - 302 |
 1 - 101  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Farr families
|
12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Farr census records
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Farr Family Origin
Farr Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Farr Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Farr Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Farr census records
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Military Service by Farr
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