Rohr Family History
- Rohr Name Meaning
- German and Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived in an area thickly grown with reeds, from Middle High German ror (a collective singular) or near a well or channel ror, or a habitational name from one of the several places named with this word. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental from German Rohr ‘reed’ (see 1 above).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 273,819 Historical Documents with Rohr on Ancestry
- 130,875 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 30,581 Census and Voter Lists
- 15,693 Military Records
- 6,599 Immigration Records
- 90,071 Member Trees
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Number of Rohr families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rohr 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
Rohr census records
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