Farrar Family History
Farrar Name Meaning
Northern English: occupational name for a smith or worker in iron,
from Middle English and Old French farrour, ferour, from
medieval Latin ferrator, an agent derivative of ferrare
‘to shoe horses’, from ferrum ‘iron’, in medieval Latin
‘horseshoe’. Compare Ferrier and Farrow.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Farrar
Name Distribution of Farrar Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Farrar families
 88 - 173  30 - 87 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Farrar families
|
1,287 - 2,571 430 - 1,286 |
1 - 429 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Farrar families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Farrar Family Origin
Farrar Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Farrar
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Farrar Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Farrar census records
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