Boyer Family History
- Boyer Name Meaning
- Altered spelling of German Bayer or Beyer. German: habitational name for someone from Boye (near Celle-Hannover). English: variant of Bowyer. Danish: habitational name from a place so named. The surname is also found in Norway and Sweden, probably from the same source.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 2,061,133 Historical Documents with Boyer on Ancestry
- 502,519 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 283,807 Census and Voter Lists
- 65,153 Military Records
- 19,270 Immigration Records
- 1,190,384 Member Trees
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Number of Boyer families
 84 - 166  29 - 83 |
 1 - 28  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Boyer families
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233 - 464 78 - 232 |
1 - 77 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Boyer 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
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