Palmer Family History
- Palmer Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English, Old French palmer, paumer (from palme, paume ‘palm tree’, Latin palma), a nickname for someone who had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Such pilgrims generally brought back a palm branch as proof that they had actually made the journey, but there was a vigorous trade in false souvenirs, and the term also came to be applied to a cleric who sold indulgences. Swedish (Palmér): ornamental name formed with palm ‘palm tree’ + the suffix -ér, from Latin -erius ‘descendant of’. Irish: when not truly of English origin (see 1 above), a surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Maolfhoghmhair (see Milford) perhaps because they were from an ecclesiastical family. German: topographic name for someone living among pussy willows (see Palm 2). German: from the personal name Palm (see Palm 3).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,452,829 Historical Documents with Palmer on Ancestry
- 2,406,883 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
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- 242,005 Military Records
- 156,084 Immigration Records
- 4,938,354 Member Trees
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Number of Palmer families
 3,360 - 6,718  1,121 - 3,359 |
 1 - 1,120  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Palmer families
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288 - 573 97 - 287 |
1 - 96 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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