Herd Family History
Herd Name Meaning
Scottish and English: variant spelling of Heard.Dutch: variant of Herder.Dutch: from Middle Dutch
hert, herte ‘hart’, ‘stag’; probably a nickname for
someone who was fleet of foot, or a habitational name for someone who
lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a deer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Herd
Name Distribution of Herd Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Herd families
 38 - 74  13 - 37 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Herd families
|
142 - 281 48 - 141 |
1 - 47 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Herd families
|
262 - 522 88 - 261 |
1 - 87 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Herd census records
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Herd Family Origin
Herd Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Herd
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Herd Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Herd census records
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Herd Civil War Service Records
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