Messer Family History
Messer Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for
a cutler, from Middle High German mezzer ‘knife’, from Old High
German mezzirahs, mezzisahs, a compound of maz
‘food’, ‘meat’ + sahs ‘knife’, ‘sword’. The Jewish name is from
German Messer ‘knife’ or Yiddish meser.German: occupational name for an official in charge of measuring
the dues paid in kind by tenants, from an agent derivative of Middle
High German mezzen ‘to measure’.English and Scottish:
occupational name for someone who kept watch over harvested crops,
Middle English, Older Scots mess(i)er, from Old French
messier (see Messier).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Messer
Name Distribution of Messer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Messer families
 82 - 161  28 - 81 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Messer families
|
62 - 121 21 - 61 |
1 - 20 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Messer census records
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Messer Family Origin
Messer Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Messer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Messer census records
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