Lesner Family History
- Lesner Name Meaning
- Variant spelling of German Lessner, a habitational name from any of various places in eastern Germany called Lessen, all named with Slavic les ‘forest’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 10,702 Historical Documents with Lesner on Ancestry
- 4,480 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,755 Census and Voter Lists
- 513 Military Records
- 396 Immigration Records
- 2,558 Member Trees
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Number of Lesner families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Lesner 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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