Scherer Family History
Scherer Name Meaning
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a
sheep-shearer or someone who used scissors to trim the surface of
finished cloth and remove excessive nap, from German Scherer,
Yiddish sherer, agent derivatives of Middle High German
scheren ‘to shear’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Scherer
Name Distribution of Scherer Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Scherer families
 164 - 326  55 - 163 |
 1 - 54  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Scherer families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Scherer families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Scherer census records
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Scherer Family Origin
Scherer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Scherer
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Scherer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Scherer census records
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Scherer Civil War Service Records
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