Wehr Family History
Wehr Name Meaning
German: topographic name for someone who lived by the defenses
of a town or village, for example a wall, ditch, or fence, Middle High
German wer.North German: from a reduced form of the
personal name Weder, composed of the Germanic elements
widu ‘wood’, ‘forest’ + hari ‘army’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wehr Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wehr families
 41 - 80  14 - 40 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wehr families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Wehr last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Wehr Family Origin
Wehr Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Wehr
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Wehr Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Wehr census records
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Wehr Civil War Service Records
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