Squire Family History
Squire Name Meaning
English: status name from Middle English squyer ‘esquire’,
‘a man belonging to the feudal rank immediately below that of knight’
(from Old French esquier ‘shield bearer’). At first it denoted
a young man of good birth attendant on a knight, or by extension any
attendant or servant, but by the 14th century the meaning had been
generalized, and referred to social status rather than age. By the
17th century, the term denoted any member of the landed gentry, but
this is unlikely to have influenced the development of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Squire
Name Distribution of Squire Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Squire families
 351 - 700  118 - 350 |
 1 - 117  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Squire families
|
20 - 38 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Squire census records
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Squire Family Origin
Squire Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Squire Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Squire families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Squire Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Squire census records
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Military Service by Squire
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