Tanner Family History
Tanner Name Meaning
English and Dutch: occupational name for a tanner of skins,
Middle English tanner, Middle Dutch taenre. (The Middle
English form derives from Old English tannere, from Late Latin
tannarius, reinforced by Old French taneor, from Late
Latin tannator; both Late Latin forms derive from a verb
tannare, possibly from a Celtic word for the oak, whose bark
was used in the process.Swiss and German: habitational
name for someone from any of several places called Tanne (in the Harz
Mountains and Silesia) or Tann (southern Germany).Finnish:
topographic or ornamental name from Finnish tanner ‘open
field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Tanner
Name Distribution of Tanner Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tanner families
 526 - 1,050  176 - 525 |
 1 - 175  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tanner families
|
18 - 34 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tanner census records
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Tanner Family Origin
Tanner Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Tanner Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Tanner Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Tanner census records
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Military Service by Tanner
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