Merchant Family History
Merchant Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a buyer and seller of goods,
from Old French, Middle English march(e)ant, Late Latin
mercatans (see Marchand).Indian (Gujarat
and Bombay city): Muslim and Parsi occupational name for a trader,
from the English vocabulary word merchant.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Merchant
Name Distribution of Merchant Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Merchant families
 107 - 211  36 - 106 |
 1 - 35  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Merchant families
|
80 - 157 27 - 79 |
1 - 26 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Merchant census records
You can see how Merchant families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Merchant Family Origin
Merchant Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Merchant emigration records
You can find out when most of the Merchant families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Merchant Emigration Information (AU)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Merchant emigration records
You can find out when most of the Merchant families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Merchant Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Merchant census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Merchant ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Merchant
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