Bigger Family History
- Bigger Name Meaning
- Scottish: variant spelling of Biggar. English: occupational name for a builder, from Middle English bigger ‘(house) builder’, an agent derivative of bigge(n) ‘to build’ (from Old Norse byggja).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 103,149 Historical Documents with Bigger on Ancestry
- 30,537 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,240 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,033 Military Records
- 1,750 Immigration Records
- 45,589 Member Trees
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Number of Bigger families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bigger families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bigger census records
You can see how Bigger families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Bigger families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Bigger families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bigger census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Bigger ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Biggers fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
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