Bare Family History
- Bare Name Meaning
- English: nickname from Old English bær ‘bare’, which in medieval times in addition to the sense ‘naked’, ‘uncovered’, also meant ‘unarmed’, ‘defenseless’, ‘unconcealed’, ‘destitute’. Altered spelling of German Bär (see Baer).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 304,629 Historical Documents with Bare on Ancestry
- 70,304 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 34,571 Census and Voter Lists
- 10,139 Military Records
- 3,122 Immigration Records
- 186,493 Member Trees
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Number of Bare families
 26 - 50  9 - 25 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bare families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bare census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Bare census records
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