Miner Family History
Miner Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who built mines, either for
the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the
medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative
of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic
origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Miner
Name Distribution of Miner Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Miner families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Miner families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Miner census records
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Miner Family Origin
Miner Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Miner Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Miner census records
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Military Service by Miner
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