Klemmer Family History
- Klemmer Name Meaning
- German: nickname from an inflected form of Middle High German klem ‘narrow’, ‘tight’, ‘scarce’, or a topographic name klemme ‘constriction’, the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant (see Klem 1). (in northern Germany) occupational name for someone who worked with clay (i.e someone who applied the daub infill on timber-framed houses), Middle High German klemer. in various German dialects the word (an agent derivative of klemmen ‘to pinch, squeeze, or claw’) denotes a bird of prey and hence an uncouth young woman or a penny pincher (Tyrol).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 42,968 Historical Documents with Klemmer on Ancestry
- 19,842 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,511 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,456 Military Records
- 1,126 Immigration Records
- 16,033 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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