Silver Family History
- Silver Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English silver ‘silver’, hence a nickname for a rich man or for someone with silvery gray hair, or a metonymic occupational name for a silversmith. English: topographic name from any of the various streams in different parts of England named with this word, probably from the silvery appearance of the water. Translation of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Silber.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 831,405 Historical Documents with Silver on Ancestry
- 242,982 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 167,196 Census and Voter Lists
- 28,022 Military Records
- 28,765 Immigration Records
- 364,440 Member Trees
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Number of Silver families
 158 - 313  53 - 157 |
 1 - 52  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Silver families
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59 - 115 20 - 58 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Silver 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
Silver census records
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