Miner Family History
Miner Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who built mines, either for
the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the
medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative
of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic
origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Miner
Name Distribution of Miner Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Miner families
 273 - 543  92 - 272 |
 1 - 91  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Miner families
|
19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Miner families
|
4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Miner census records
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Miner Family Origin
Miner Immigration Information
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Miner
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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)
Miner Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Miner census records
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Miner Civil War Service Records
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