Raper Family History
- Raper Name Meaning
- English (Yorkshire): variant of Roper. In southern dialects of English, Old English -a- became Middle English -o-, whereas in Yorkshire -a- was preserved and gave rise to this form of the surname. Possibly also an altered spelling of German Röper or Röber (see Roeber).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 287,757 Historical Documents with Raper on Ancestry
- 88,014 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 57,677 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,529 Military Records
- 5,048 Immigration Records
- 129,489 Member Trees
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Number of Raper families
 413 - 823  138 - 412 |
 1 - 137  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Raper families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Raper 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
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