Uhr Family History
- Uhr Name Meaning
- German: from a short form of the personal name Uhrich, a variant of Ulrich. German: from Middle High German ur ‘aurochs’, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a bison. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a watch- or clock maker, from German Uhr ‘watch’, ‘clock’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 68,735 Historical Documents with Uhr on Ancestry
- 11,237 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,838 Census and Voter Lists
- 45,594 Military Records
- 1,079 Immigration Records
- 7,987 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Uhr census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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