Blair Family History
Blair Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of the
numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic
blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain’, ‘field’, especially
a battlefield (Irish blár).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Blair
Name Distribution of Blair Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Blair families
 429 - 856  144 - 428 |
 1 - 143  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Blair families
|
245 - 487 82 - 244 |
1 - 81 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Blair families
|
829 - 1,656 277 - 828 |
1 - 276 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Blair census records
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Blair Family Origin
Blair Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Blair
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Blair Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Blair census records
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Blair Civil War Service Records
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