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shearer Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern English: from an agent derivative of Middle English schere(n) ‘to shear’; an occupational name for a sheep shearer or someone who used scissors to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap. Middle English schere denoted shears and scissors of all sizes.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of shearer Families in the US in 1920
Number of shearer families
 383-763
 128-382		 1-127
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 483 - Messages: 1169
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Jesse (Homer) Shearer b. 1899, KY kyken1121 5
Jack and Mary (Kerby) Shearer, Dayton OH ESHearer80 6
re: Shearer family history Sares 2
re: Shearer family history Sares 0
Lancaster Co. Pa Shearer Tom Shearer 7
Jacob Shearer b 1800 Oley PA MichaelCSchrader 1
John Mary Shearer family Joyce Fogle 26
Michael Shearer and Anna Hipp Tom Shearer 3
Shearers in PA and OH mcasadayw 0
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