Hamer Family History
- Hamer Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a place in Lancashire named Hamer, from Old English hamor ‘rock’, ‘crag’. English: possibly a metonymic occupational name for a smith or for a maker or seller of hammers, Middle English hamer (Old English hamor), or a habitational name for someone living at an inn or shop distinguished by the sign of a hammer. Dutch: from hamer ‘hammer’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of hammers or a user of a hammer, for example a blacksmith. Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German: variant spelling of Hammer. Slovenian: variant spelling of German Hammer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 586,671 Historical Documents with Hamer on Ancestry
- 284,822 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 124,259 Census and Voter Lists
- 14,624 Military Records
- 14,892 Immigration Records
- 148,074 Member Trees
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Number of Hamer families
 1,533 - 3,064  512 - 1,532 |
 1 - 511  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hamer families
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9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Hamer 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
Hamer census records
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