Horner Family History
- Horner Name Meaning
- English, Scottish, German, and Dutch: from Horn 1 with the agent suffix -er; an occupational name for someone who made or sold small articles made of horn, a metonymic occupational name for someone who played a musical instrument made from the horn of an animal, or a topographic name for someone who lived at a ‘horn’ of land. habitational name from Horner in Diptford, Devon, which is named from Old English horn ‘horn of land’ + ora ‘hill spur’, ‘ridge’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn 4.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,162,055 Historical Documents with Horner on Ancestry
- 418,762 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 224,584 Census and Voter Lists
- 37,028 Military Records
- 18,587 Immigration Records
- 463,094 Member Trees
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Number of Horner families
 1,026 - 2,050  343 - 1,025 |
 1 - 342  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Horner families
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31 - 59 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Horner 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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