Scharrer Family History
- Scharrer Name Meaning
- from an agent derivative of Middle High German scharren ‘to scrape or scratch’; an occupational name for a wool carder, or a nickname for a miser. habitational name for someone from any of various places, such as Scharr in Switzerland, Bavaria, and the Upper Palatinate, or Scharre in Saxony, named with Old High German scara ‘wooded area’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 18,673 Historical Documents with Scharrer on Ancestry
- 8,253 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,110 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,117 Military Records
- 866 Immigration Records
- 4,327 Member Trees
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Number of Scharrer 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
Scharrer 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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