Mier Family History
Mier Name Meaning
English: variant spelling of Myer.Spanish:
habitational name from a village in Santander province, so named from
mies ‘ripe grain’, ‘harvest time’ (Latin messis aestiva
‘summer harvest’).Dutch: nickname from mier ‘ant’;
perhaps denoting an industrious person.Dutch and Belgian
(van de Mier): topographic name from a Brabantine form of
moere ‘bog’, ‘marsh’ (modern moeras), or a habitational
name from Moere in West Flanders.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mier
Name Distribution of Mier Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mier families
 13 - 23  5 - 12 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mier families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mier census records
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Mier Family Origin
Mier Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mier Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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