Peller Family History
- Peller Name Meaning
- English and German: occupational name from Middle English, Middle Low German peller ‘maker (or seller) of expensive cloth’, derived from Old English pæll, pell ‘costly or purple cloth or cloak’, Middle Low German pelle (see Pelle 2). Southern English: topographic name for someone living by an inlet of the sea, a derivative of Old English pyll ‘inlet’ (see Pill 1) + the -er suffix denoting an inhabitant. German: from a Germanic personal name formed with bald ‘brave’ + heri ‘army’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 28,513 Historical Documents with Peller on Ancestry
- 15,914 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,062 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,823 Military Records
- 1,831 Immigration Records
- 3,883 Member Trees
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Number of Peller families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Peller 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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