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turnmire Name Meaning and History

Americanized spelling of German Dürmeyer or Dürrenmayer, a distinguishing name either for a tenant farmer (see Meyer) who sold his produce at a high price (Middle Low German dure ‘dear’, ‘expensive’), or, in the south, a tenant farmer whose farm was by water (Middle High German dur ‘water’ appears in field names).

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Distribution of turnmire Families in the US in 1920
Number of turnmire families
 7-11
 3-6
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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