Balmer Family History
- Balmer Name Meaning
- English and Scottish: occupational name for a seller of spices and perfumes, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French basme, balme, ba(u)me ‘balm’, ‘ointment’ (Latin balsamum ‘aromatic resin’). South German and Swiss German: habitational name from any of the places in Switzerland and Baden called Balm, which almost certainly get their names from a Celtic word meaning ‘cave’. German: from the Germanic personal name Baldemar, composed of the elements bald ‘bold’ + mar ‘famous’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 185,191 Historical Documents with Balmer on Ancestry
- 71,023 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 40,952 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,661 Military Records
- 6,132 Immigration Records
- 62,423 Member Trees
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Number of Balmer families
 214 - 425  72 - 213 |
 1 - 71  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Balmer families
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Balmer census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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