Leather Family History
Leather Name Meaning
English (chiefly Lancashire and Yorkshire): metonymic occupational
name for a leatherworker or seller of leather goods, from Middle
English lether, Old English leþer ‘leather’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Leather
Name Distribution of Leather Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Leather families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Leather families
|
583 - 1,163 195 - 582 |
1 - 194 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Leather families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Leather census records
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Leather Family Origin
Leather Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Leather
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Leather Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Leather census records
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Leather Civil War Service Records
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