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Peer: Origin, Geographical Distribution
(Norman.) Local. The place at the gorge or neck of the mountain; from Col, a strait or defile, and mond or mont, a hill. This name is pronounced Chum-ley. An English gentleman meeting the Earl of Cholmon-deley one day coming out of his own house, and not being acquainted with him, asked him if Lord Chol-mond-e-ley (pronouncing each syllable distinctly) was at home. No, replied the peer, without hesitation, nor any of his pe-o-ple.
Peer Surname Origin
Peer: Place of Origin :  Grampian (United Kingdom) |  London (United Kingdom) |  Bedfordshire (United Kingdom) |  Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) |  Cambridgeshire (United Kingdom) |  Kent (United Kingdom)
Peer: Online Family Trees
PEER Rossendalelancs Gbr (United Kingdom) 1994 - 1994
PEER Northill (Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1746 - 1792
van PEER Pulle, Ant (Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom) 1920 - 1920
PEER Newcastle Upon Tyne (Tyne And Wear, England, United Kingdom) 1995 - 1995
PEER Hankerton (Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom) 1818 - 1818
PEER  (United Kingdom)  -
PEER Rossendalelancs Gbr (United Kingdom)  -
PEER  (United Kingdom) 1992 - 1992

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Peer: Books that contain this surname
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PEERThe Georgian era : memoirs of the most eminent persons, who have flourished in Great Britain, from the accession of George the First to the demise of George the Fourth (Volume 2)

... his wife, a daughter of William Peer Williams, of Cadhay, Esq., he left two sons and two daughters. ...		 PEERHistory of Michigan (Volume 4)
Author: Moore, Charles, 1855-1942 - Published in 1915
... Huron county, and daughter of William H. and Charlotte E. (Peer) Cooper. Her father, who died in 1913, was active ...
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