Sawyer Family History
Sawyer Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by
sawing wood, Middle English saghier, an agent derivative of
sagh(en) ‘to saw’.Americanized form of some like-sounding
Jewish surname or a translation of Seger.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Sawyer
Name Distribution of Sawyer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sawyer families
 622 - 1,242  208 - 621 |
 1 - 207  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sawyer families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sawyer census records
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Sawyer Family Origin
Sawyer Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Sawyer Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Sawyer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Sawyer census records
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Military Service by Sawyer
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