Shepard Family History
Shepard Name Meaning
English: variant spelling of Shepherd.Americanized
form of some Jewish surname sounding like or meaning ‘shepherd’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shepard
Name Distribution of Shepard Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shepard families
 91 - 180  31 - 90 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shepard families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shepard census records
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Shepard Family Origin
Shepard Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Shepard Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Shepard census records
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Military Service by Shepard
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