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carrier Name Meaning and History

  1. English and southern French: from Middle English, Old French car(r)ier (Late Latin carrarius, a derivative of carrum ‘cart’, ‘wagon’, of Gaulish origin); in English an occupational name for someone who transported goods, in French for a cartwright.
  2. French: occupational name for a stonemason or quarryman, carrier.

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

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Distribution of carrier Families in the US in 1920
Number of carrier families
 74-145
 25-73		 1-24
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 233 - Messages: 693
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Carrier family tree uk junewilliams2 5
Amariah Carrier, Honor Hogins LEBMeyers 6
Carrier, Francis Kruski2008 0
David R. Carrier, Herkimer Co., NY Nan_Lambert 4
CARRIER Frances 1833 1915 mother t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
CARRIER James H 1835 1908 father t42IOOF_DenCoTX 0
Amariah Carrier, Honor Hogins LEBMeyers 0
Harrison Carrier, Richard A. Carrier 5
Carrier/Duperron/Laveru 58currier 0
Carriers... w1amf 2
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