Leier Family History
- Leier Name Meaning
- German (Rhineland): habitational name from any of several places named with Middle Low German leie ‘rock’, or a topographic name for someone living near a rock or in a rocky area.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,792 Historical Documents with Leier on Ancestry
- 8,007 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,521 Census and Voter Lists
- 706 Military Records
- 664 Immigration Records
- 5,894 Member Trees
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Number of Leier families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leier census records
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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 Leier families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Leier families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Leier census records
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