Hamer Family History
Hamer Name Meaning
English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire named
Hamer, from Old English hamor ‘rock’, ‘crag’.English:
possibly a metonymic occupational name for a smith or for a maker or
seller of hammers, Middle English hamer (Old English
hamor), or a habitational name for someone living at an inn or
shop distinguished by the sign of a hammer.Dutch: from
hamer ‘hammer’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker
of hammers or a user of a hammer, for example a blacksmith.Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German: variant spelling of Hammer.Slovenian: variant spelling of German Hammer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hamer
Name Distribution of Hamer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hamer families
 90 - 177  31 - 89 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hamer families
|
1,533 - 3,064 512 - 1,532 |
1 - 511 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hamer families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hamer census records
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Hamer Family Origin
Hamer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hamer
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Hamer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Hamer census records
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Hamer Civil War Service Records
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