Kimber Family History
Kimber Name Meaning
English: probably a habitational name from East and West Kimber
in the parish of Northlew in Devon, so named from Old English
cempa ‘warrior’ (or the Old English personal name Cempa)
+ bearn ‘grove’, ‘wood’. It may also be an altered form of
Kimbrough.Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of
Kinberg.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kimber
Name Distribution of Kimber Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kimber families
 309 - 615  104 - 308 |
 1 - 103  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kimber families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kimber census records
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Kimber Family Origin
Kimber Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Kimber Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Kimber families immigrated
to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Kimber Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Kimber census records
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Military Service by Kimber
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