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bulmer Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from either of two places called Bulmer, in North Yorkshire and Essex, or from Boulmer in Northumberland. The first, recorded in Domesday Book as Bolemere, is named in Old English with bula ‘bull’ + mere ‘lake’, as is Boulmer; the second, found in early records as Bulenemera, is from bulena (genitive plural of bula) + mere ‘lake’.

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bulmer Family Facts

Distribution of bulmer Families in the US in 1920
Number of bulmer families
 21-39
 8-20
 1-7
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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