Moyer Family History
Moyer Name Meaning
Irish: possibly a shortened form of MacMoyer, Anglicized
form of Gaelic Mac an Mhaoir ‘son of the steward’, from
maor ‘steward’. Many English (not Irish) bearers in IGI.Americanized form of German Meyer 1.Dutch:
occupational name for a mower or reaper. DEBIGI Continental
bearers are northern French rather than Dutch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
564,853
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Moyer
Name Distribution of Moyer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Moyer families
 24 - 46  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Moyer families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Moyer census records
You can see how Moyer 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.
View all Moyer census records
>
Moyer Family Origin
Moyer Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Moyer emigration records
You can find out when most of the Moyer 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.
View all Moyer emigration records >
from the New York Passenger Lists
Moyer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Moyer census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Moyer ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
View all Moyer census records >
Military Service by Moyer
Message Board about Moyer
798 Threads, 31
Messages
Browse message boards to get helpful hints from other people researching the name
Moyer.
Threads: 798 - Messages: 31
Start a FREE Moyer family tree
Starting a family tree at Ancestry is not only the easiest way to organise, preserve
and share your family history, it's also a direct link to missing information about
your roots.
About Ancestry.co.uk
The world's largest family history resource
- Explore over 7 billion genealogical records
- Search 26 million family trees
- Create your FREE family tree
- Follow leaf Hints to follow more ancestors
×