Dimmer Family History
- Dimmer Name Meaning
- English: of uncertain derivation. Reaney suggests this is from Old French dix mars ‘ten marks’, presumably as a nickname for someone who owed this as a feudal due or paid it in rent. German: variant of the personal name Dietmar (see Dittmar).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 28,276 Historical Documents with Dimmer on Ancestry
- 11,313 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,416 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,075 Military Records
- 833 Immigration Records
- 8,639 Member Trees
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Number of Dimmer families
 38 - 73  13 - 37 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dimmer families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dimmer 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 1881 UK Census Data
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