Singer Family History
Singer Name Meaning
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a cantor in a
synagogue, from Yiddish zinger ‘singer’.English:
variant of Sanger 2, in fact a Middle English recoinage from
the verb sing(en) ‘to sing’.German: variant of
Sänger (see Sanger 1) in the sense of ‘poet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Singer
Name Distribution of Singer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Singer families
 131 - 259  44 - 130 |
 1 - 43  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Singer families
|
93 - 183 32 - 92 |
1 - 31 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Singer census records
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Singer Family Origin
Singer Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Singer Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Singer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Singer census records
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Military Service by Singer
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