Ferrier Family History

Scottish and English: occupational name for a smith, one who shoed horses from Old French ferrier ‘blacksmith, ironworker’ (medieval Latin ferrarius from ferrus ‘horseshoe’ from Latin ferrum ‘iron’). Compare Farrier Farrar.

Scottish and English: occupational name for a ferryman from Middle English ferier(e) ‘ferryman’. Black reports that lands called Ferrylands in Dumbarton by a ferry across the Clyde belonged to Robert Ferrier in 151.

French: occupational name from Old French ferrier ‘blacksmith, farrier’ (see 1 above).