Leader Family History
Leader Name Meaning
occupational name for someone who led a horse and cart
conveying commodities from one place to another, Middle English
ledere, an agent noun from Old English l?dan ‘to
lead’. The word may also sometimes have been used to denote a foreman
or someone who led sport or dance, but the name certainly did not
originate with leader in the modern sense ‘civil or military
commander’; this is a comparatively recent development.occupational name for a worker in lead, from an agent derivative
of Old English lead ‘lead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Leader
Name Distribution of Leader Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leader families
 187 - 372  63 - 186 |
 1 - 62  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leader families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leader census records
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Leader Family Origin
Leader Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Leader Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Leader census records
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Military Service by Leader
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