Barr Family History
- Barr Name Meaning
- Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height’, ‘hill’ or a British cognate of this. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a gateway or barrier, from Middle English, Old French barre ‘bar’, ‘obstruction’. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Barre. See Barre. English: habitational name from any of various places in England called Barr, for example Great Barr in the West Midlands, named with the Celtic element barro ‘height’, ‘hill’. English: from the vocabulary word barr ‘bar’, ‘pole’, either a metonymic occupational name for a maker of bars, or perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin man. Irish: from Ó Bairr, Donegal form of Ó Báire (see Barry 2).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,240,859 Historical Documents with Barr on Ancestry
- 532,771 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 422,312 Census and Voter Lists
- 70,349 Military Records
- 174,427 Immigration Records
- 1,041,000 Member Trees
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Number of Barr families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Barr families
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109 - 215 37 - 108 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Barr 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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