Packer Family History
Packer Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a wool-packer, from an agent
derivative of Middle English pack(en) ‘to pack’.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from an agent derivative of Middle
Low German pak, German Pack ‘package’, hence an
occupational name for a wholesale trader, especially in the wool
trade, one who sold goods in large packages rather than broken down
into smaller quantities, or alternatively one who rode or drove pack
animals to transport goods.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Packer
Name Distribution of Packer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Packer families
 319 - 636  107 - 318 |
 1 - 106  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Packer families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Packer census records
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Packer Family Origin
Packer Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Packer Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Packer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Packer census records
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Military Service by Packer
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