Brander Family History
- Brander Name Meaning
- Dutch: occupational name for an inspector of weights and measures. German and Swiss German: habitational name for someone from any of the many places called Brand or Brandt (see Brandt). Jewish (Ashkenazic): perhaps an occupational name for fireman or distiller, from German Brand, Yiddish brand ‘conflagration’. Dutch: nickname for a fire raiser. Danish: habitational name for someone from a place called Brande.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 96,002 Historical Documents with Brander on Ancestry
- 36,712 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 20,081 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,539 Military Records
- 6,988 Immigration Records
- 29,682 Member Trees
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Number of Brander families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Brander families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Brander 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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