Wimmer Family History
- Wimmer Name Meaning
- German: reduced form of Widmer. German: occupational name from Middle High German wimmer ‘wine maker’. German: nickname from Middle High German wim(m)er ‘knotty growth on a tree trunk’. German: variant of Weimer 2. English: from the Old English personal name Winem?r, a compound of wine ‘friend’ + m?r ‘famous’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 253,655 Historical Documents with Wimmer on Ancestry
- 78,800 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,376 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,887 Military Records
- 4,533 Immigration Records
- 127,059 Member Trees
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Number of Wimmer families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wimmer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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