Kern Family History
Kern Name Meaning
Irish: reduced form of McCarron.German, Dutch, and
Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German kerne ‘kernel’,
‘seed’, ‘pip’; Middle Dutch kern(e), keerne; German
Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’, hence a metonymic
occupational name for a farmer, or a nickname for a small person. As a
Jewish surname, it is mainly ornamental.English: probably a
metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hand mills, from
Old English cweorn ‘hand mill’, or a habitational name for
someone from Kern in the Isle of Wight, named from this word.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kern
Name Distribution of Kern Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kern families
 26 - 49  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kern families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kern census records
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Kern Family Origin
Kern Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kern Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kern census records
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Military Service by Kern
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