Mar Family History
- Mar Name Meaning
- Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Asturian-Leonese, and Catalan: topographic name for someone living by the sea, from mar ‘sea’ (Latin mare). German: nickname from Middle High German mar(w) ‘tender’, ‘delicate’. Hungarian (Már): from a short form of the personal name Márkus or Márk, Hungarian forms of Marcus and Mark; or possibly from the personal name Márton, Hungarian form of Martin. Chinese: variant of Ma.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 933,664 Historical Documents with Mar on Ancestry
- 278,283 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 56,088 Census and Voter Lists
- 81,490 Military Records
- 17,514 Immigration Records
- 500,289 Member Trees
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Number of Mar families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mar families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Mar 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
Mar census records
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