Brewer Family History
Brewer Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from an
agent derivative of Old English breowan ‘to brew’. Compare
Brewster.English (of Norman origin): anglicized
form of French Bruyère (see Bruyere), habitational
name from a place so called in Calvados, France.Translation of
Dutch Brouwer, German Brauer or Breuer, etc., all
occupational names meaning ‘brewer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Brewer
Name Distribution of Brewer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Brewer families
 288 - 573  97 - 287 |
 1 - 96  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Brewer families
|
598 - 1,193 200 - 597 |
1 - 199 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brewer families
|
15 - 28 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Brewer census records
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Brewer Family Origin
Brewer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Brewer
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Brewer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Brewer census records
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Brewer Civil War Service Records
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