Shier Family History
Shier Name Meaning
English and Irish (County Limerick): variant of Shire.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for
a Talmudic teacher, from Yiddish shier ‘lesson of the Talmud’.Americanized spelling of German Schier.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Shier
Name Distribution of Shier Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Shier families
 17 - 31  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Shier families
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31 - 60 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Shier families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Shier census records
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Shier Family Origin
Shier Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Shier
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Shier Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Shier census records
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Shier Civil War Service Records
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