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The stigers Surname

stigers Name Meaning and History

Altered form of Dutch Steygers, Stygers, which may be a metonymic occupational name for a scaffolder, from Middle Dutch ste(i)ger ‘step’, ‘stairs’, ‘scaffold’, or alternatively a habitational name from Stegers (French Estaires) in French Flanders. In Limburg this is a topographic name for someone who lived by an ascending track, from a derivative of stege, steeg ‘(steep) path’.

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

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Distribution of stigers Families in the US in 1920

Number of stigers families

10-17

4-9

1-3

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Thread	Author	Replies
Sophia Stigers	valsusan	2
Long lost family	brendasneese	0
Lucille A Stigers d. -1946 m.Levi Long Cook	oakbranch11	0
Looking for information about O. Stigers	Ann Marie Middleton	1
Family in St. Joseph, MO	Tim Stigers	10
Living Stigers in Franklin Co. KY	mnaj1959	10
STIGER, Leopold & HAZELTON, Sarah - Racine Co., WI	jimcook402	0
John B.F. Stigers	Nancy Stigers Rice	4
William R Stigers	mhall41	0
William Reilly Stigers	Skimino2	0

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