Officer Family History
Officer Name Meaning
occupational name for the holder of any office, from
Anglo-Norman French officer (an agent derivative of Old French
office ‘duty’, ‘service’, Latin officium ‘service’,
‘task’).occupational name for a sewer of gold embroidery, from
Anglo-Norman French orfroiser (an agent derivative of Old
French orfrois, Late Latin auriphyrigium ‘Phrygian
gold’--the Phrygians being famed in antiquity for their gold
embroidery).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Officer
Name Distribution of Officer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Officer families
 32 - 62  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Officer families
|
19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Officer census records
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Officer Family Origin
Officer Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Officer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Officer census records
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