Mclear Family History
- Mclear Name Meaning
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Uidhir ‘son of the swarthy lad’ or ‘son of the servant of Odhar’, a byname from odhar (genitive uidhir) ‘dun-colored’, ‘weatherbeaten’. Compare McAleer. See also McClure.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 16,682 Historical Documents with Mclear on Ancestry
- 5,505 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,591 Census and Voter Lists
- 880 Military Records
- 813 Immigration Records
- 3,893 Member Trees
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Number of Mclear families
 12 - 22  5 - 11 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mclear families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Mclear census records
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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