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sawyer Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, Middle English saghier, an agent derivative of sagh(en) ‘to saw’.
  2. Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish surname or a translation of Seger.

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

Distribution of sawyer Families in the US in 1920
Number of sawyer families
 429-856
 144-428		 1-143
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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A Death :Gladys iola Sawyer-Sturdavant frosty L.Chandler 1
Jacob Sawyer in OH and PA Janchar 19
Amelia Sawyer lisa dooley 29
Abram/ Abraham Sawyer elmhissim 0
Otis Sawyer Esq.& Mary Ann Bickford Martha_Whitman 0
Daniel Sawyer Lacey1006 3
SAWYER Linda SCOTT 1944-1983 t42Moore 0
Death of Mr. Guy Herbert Sawyer in Venezuela davwayell 0
Dempsey Sawyer EFerree8747 4
Edmund Sawyer B:1785 Camden, N.Carolina ANNETTEPATTERSON61 13
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