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The buer Surname

buer Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: probably a habitational name from a place so named near Essen, or a variant of Buhr.
  2. Norwegian: habitational name from the common farm name Buer, from the plural of bu ‘booth’, ‘temporary dwelling’ (from Old Norse búð).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The buer name in History

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Distribution of buer Families in the US in 1920
Number of buer families
 13-24
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 14 - Messages: 25
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Grandfather of Virginia Schmidt virginiaschmidt2 1
Henry Wells Buer-Edith Rebecca Buer ThistleSue 0
Nicholas Beuhr CarolKenny05 0
Picture of Emma Buer Nancyk626 2
Dr. George Harvey Buer PGiacoletti 7
Edith Rebecca Buer & her decendants Susan Kennedy 0
Buer families wilson_bird 1
Buer Family, London, England. Susan Kennedy 0
Obit. Glendon J. " Glen " Buer KAYROM 0
OWEN wilson_bird 0
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