Skinner Family History
Skinner Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from
animals, to be used in the production of fur garments or to be tanned
for leather, from an agent derivative of Middle English skin
‘hide’, ‘pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Skinner
Name Distribution of Skinner Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Skinner families
 353 - 703  118 - 352 |
 1 - 117  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Skinner families
|
1,345 - 2,687 449 - 1,344 |
1 - 448 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Skinner families
|
218 - 433 73 - 217 |
1 - 72 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Skinner Family Origin
Skinner Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Skinner
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Skinner Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Skinner census records
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