Shearer Family History
Shearer Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: from an agent derivative of Middle
English schere(n) ‘to shear’; an occupational name for a sheep
shearer or someone who used scissors to trim the surface of finished
cloth and remove excessive nap. Middle English schere denoted
shears and scissors of all sizes.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shearer
Name Distribution of Shearer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shearer families
 84 - 165  29 - 83 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shearer families
|
545 - 1,087 182 - 544 |
1 - 181 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shearer census records
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Shearer Family Origin
Shearer Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Shearer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Shearer census records
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