Leer Family History
- Leer Name Meaning
- Dutch: from a reduced form of the personal name Hilaire (Latin Hilarius). Danish: habitational name from a place so called in northern Germany, near Oldenburg. Danish: from ler ‘clay’, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived on clay or an occupational name for someone who extracted or used it.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 78,414 Historical Documents with Leer on Ancestry
- 35,760 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,703 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,031 Military Records
- 2,910 Immigration Records
- 22,010 Member Trees
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Number of Leer families
 21 - 40  8 - 20 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Leer 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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You can find out when most of the Leer families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Leer census records
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