Schipper Family History
- Schipper Name Meaning
- Dutch and North German: occupational name for a shipman or (in German) a shipbuilder, from an agent derivative of schip ‘ship’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a shovel maker or a digger, from German Schippe ‘shovel’, ‘spade’ + the agent suffix -er.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 186,572 Historical Documents with Schipper on Ancestry
- 129,955 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 7,961 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,829 Military Records
- 4,982 Immigration Records
- 40,845 Member Trees
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Number of Schipper families
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 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Schipper families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Schipper census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Schipper families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Schipper families immigrated to Canada. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 CA Census Data
Schipper census records
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