Sperr Family History
- Sperr Name Meaning
- South German: perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a jailer, from Middle High German sperre ‘bolt’, ‘clip’, sperren ‘to lock or shut’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 16,693 Historical Documents with Sperr on Ancestry
- 10,441 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,138 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,431 Military Records
- 527 Immigration Records
- 2,156 Member Trees
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Number of Sperr families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sperr 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
Sperr census records
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