Officer Family History
Officer Name Meaning
occupational name for the holder of any office, from
Anglo-Norman French officer (an agent derivative of Old French
office ‘duty’, ‘service’, Latin officium ‘service’,
‘task’).occupational name for a sewer of gold embroidery, from
Anglo-Norman French orfroiser (an agent derivative of Old
French orfrois, Late Latin auriphyrigium ‘Phrygian
gold’--the Phrygians being famed in antiquity for their gold
embroidery).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Officer
Name Distribution of Officer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Officer families
 36 - 69  13 - 35 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Officer families
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32 - 62 11 - 31 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Officer families
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19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Officer census records
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Officer Family Origin
Officer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Officer
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Officer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Officer census records
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Officer Civil War Service Records
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