Schur Family History
- Schur Name Meaning
- North German: from Middle Low German schur ‘shower of rain’ or ‘bad storm’, in any of several possible senses. It may be a nickname for an easily excitable person, an occupational name for the warden of a park or piece of common land (from the same word in the sense ‘protection’; compare Schuetz), or a nickname from the same word in the sense ‘clever’. German (Schür): see Scheuer. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Shor.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 53,319 Historical Documents with Schur on Ancestry
- 31,237 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,481 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,222 Military Records
- 3,173 Immigration Records
- 8,206 Member Trees
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Number of Schur families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Schur census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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