Pear Family History
Pear Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pe(e)re ‘pear’ (Old English
pere, peru, from Latin pirum), a metonymic
occupational name for a grower or seller of pears, or a topographic
name for someone who lived by a pear tree or pear orchard.English: nickname from Middle English pere ‘peer’,
‘companion’ (Old French pe(e)r, from Latin par ‘equal’).Jewish: Americanization of some like-sounding Ashkenazic
surname; e.g. possibly a shortened form of a surname such as
Pearl, Pearlman, or Pearlstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Pear Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pear families
 16 - 29  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Pear families
|
19 - 36 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pear families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pear census records
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Pear Family Origin
Pear Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Pear
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Pear Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Pear census records
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Pear Civil War Service Records
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