Mears Family History
- Mears Name Meaning
- topographic name for someone who lived by a pond, Old English mere. topographic name for someone who lived near a boundary, Old English (ge)m?re.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 613,441 Historical Documents with Mears on Ancestry
- 173,051 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 121,605 Census and Voter Lists
- 19,103 Military Records
- 8,861 Immigration Records
- 290,821 Member Trees
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Number of Mears families
 389 - 776  130 - 388 |
 1 - 129  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mears families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mears 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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