Backer Family History
- Backer Name Meaning
- North German (Bäcker) and Dutch: variant of Becker. Northern English: topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or at the rear of a settlement, from Middle English bakke ‘back’, ‘spine’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant. Danish and Norwegian: probably of German origin (see 1), but in Norway this is also a spelling variant of the habitational name Bakker.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 276,611 Historical Documents with Backer on Ancestry
- 140,933 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 50,501 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,573 Military Records
- 12,968 Immigration Records
- 63,636 Member Trees
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Number of Backer families
 86 - 170  29 - 85 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Backer families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Backer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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