Skinner Family History
Skinner Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from
animals, to be used in the production of fur garments or to be tanned
for leather, from an agent derivative of Middle English skin
‘hide’, ‘pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Skinner
Name Distribution of Skinner Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Skinner families
 1,345 - 2,687  449 - 1,344 |
 1 - 448  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Skinner families
|
218 - 433 73 - 217 |
1 - 72 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Skinner census records
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Skinner Family Origin
Skinner Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Skinner Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Skinner Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Skinner census records
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Military Service by Skinner
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