Faber Family History
- Faber Name Meaning
- Occupational name for a smith or ironworker, from Latin faber ‘craftsman’. This was in use as a surname in England, Scotland, and elsewhere in the Middle Ages and is also found as a personal name. At the time of the Reformation, it was much used as a humanistic name, a translation into Latin of vernacular surnames such as German Schmidt and Dutch Smit. Secondary surname in French Canada for Lefebvre. The name Fabert appears in Kaskaskia, IL, in 1725.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 492,086 Historical Documents with Faber on Ancestry
- 261,599 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 56,736 Census and Voter Lists
- 18,107 Military Records
- 14,739 Immigration Records
- 140,905 Member Trees
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Number of Faber families
 48 - 94  17 - 47 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Faber 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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