Pier Family History
Pier Name Meaning
habitational name from a place so named near Düren
(Lower Rhine).nickname from Middle Low German
pir(-as) ‘earthworm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pier
Name Distribution of Pier Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pier families
 19 - 35  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pier census records
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Pier Family Origin
Pier Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Pier Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Pier census records
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Military Service by Pier
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