Sears Family History
Sears Name Meaning
Irish (Kerry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair,
which in turn may be a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the Old
English personal name Saeger (see 2 below). EML.English: patronymic from a Middle English personal name
Saher or Seir (see Sayer 1).Americanized
form of French Cyr.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Sears Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sears families
 287 - 572  96 - 286 |
 1 - 95  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sears families
|
274 - 545 92 - 273 |
1 - 91 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sears families
|
7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sears census records
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Sears Family Origin
Sears Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sears
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Sears Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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