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skinner Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals, to be used in the production of fur garments or to be tanned for leather, from an agent derivative of Middle English skin ‘hide’, ‘pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of skinner Families in the US in 1920
Number of skinner families
 353-703
 118-352		 1-117
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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