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ferrier Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: occupational name for a smith, one who shoed horses, Middle English and Old French ferrier, from medieval Latin ferrarius, from ferrus ‘horseshoe’, from Latin ferrum ‘iron’. Compare Farrar.
  2. Scottish: possibly an occupational name for a ferryman. Black reports that lands called Ferrylands in Dumbarton, by a ferry across the Clyde, belonged to Robert Ferrier in 1512.
  3. Possibly southern French: occupational name for a smith, a variant of Ferrié (see Ferrie).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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ferrier Family Facts

Distribution of ferrier Families in the US in 1920
Number of ferrier families
 26-50
 9-25		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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