Farmer Family History
Farmer Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English, Old French
ferm(i)er (Late Latin firmarius). The term denoted in
the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of
taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum
for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the
purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated
land before the 17th century.Irish: Anglicized (part
translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the
husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Farmer
Name Distribution of Farmer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Farmer families
 266 - 530  89 - 265 |
 1 - 88  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Farmer families
|
635 - 1,268 212 - 634 |
1 - 211 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Farmer families
|
130 - 258 44 - 129 |
1 - 43 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Farmer census records
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Farmer Family Origin
Farmer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Farmer
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Farmer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Farmer census records
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Farmer Civil War Service Records
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