120 Merchants were recorded as labourers in the 1901 Census.
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The earliest occurrence of the Merchant surname in our family history documents is from 1539, and we currently have 119,328 records where Merchant appears. Here are a few more facts to get you started…
In the early 1900s Merchants were most likely to live in Gloucestershire.
Not all Merchants were law-abiding. We found 84 in criminal records.
140 Merchants served in the First World War.
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