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lehr Name Meaning and History

German: topographic name for someone who lived in a marshy area. There are a number of minor places, mostly in southern Germany, named with this element, and the surname may also come from any of them.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the lehr family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of lehr Families in the US in 1920
Number of lehr families
 112-222
 38-111		 1-37
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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