Ferrier Family History
Ferrier Name Meaning
Scottish: occupational name for a smith, one who shoed horses,
Middle English and Old French ferrier, from medieval Latin
ferrarius, from ferrus ‘horseshoe’, from Latin
ferrum ‘iron’. Compare Farrar.Scottish: possibly an
occupational name for a ferryman. Black reports that lands called
Ferrylands in Dumbarton, by a ferry across the Clyde, belonged to
Robert Ferrier in 1512.Possibly southern French: occupational
name for a smith, a variant of Ferrié (see Ferrie).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ferrier Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ferrier families
 54 - 105  19 - 53 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ferrier families
|
210 - 417 71 - 209 |
1 - 70 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ferrier Family Origin
Ferrier Emigration Information (US)
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Ferrier Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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