Kerner Family History
- Kerner Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a farmer or a nickname for a small person, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kerne ‘kernel’, ‘seed’, ‘pip’, German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’. German: occupational name for a carter, from Karren ‘cart’ (see Karner). Alemannic occupational name for a baker using spelt (a type of wheat) or for a spelt dealer. German: variant of Körner (see Korner).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 136,158 Historical Documents with Kerner on Ancestry
- 76,198 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 21,429 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,027 Military Records
- 5,507 Immigration Records
- 26,997 Member Trees
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Number of Kerner families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kerner census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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