Belcher Family History
Belcher Name Meaning
(of Norman origin): nickname from Old French
beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ + chere ‘face’,
‘countenance’. Although it originally meant ‘face’, the word
chere later came to mean also ‘demeanor’, ‘disposition’ (hence
English cheer), and the nickname may thus also have denoted a
person of pleasant, cheerful disposition. There has been some
confusion with Bowser.nickname for someone given to
belching. See Balch.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Belcher Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Belcher families
 132 - 261  45 - 131 |
 1 - 44  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Belcher families
|
356 - 710 119 - 355 |
1 - 118 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Belcher families
|
15 - 27 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Belcher Family Origin
Belcher Immigration Information
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Belcher Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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