Researching Arthur Piper
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 5918 people with the Piper surname? In that year Piper was ranked number 720 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Arthur means "from Latin Artorius, legendary king" and is of Welsh origin.
Records of Arthur Piper on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Arthur Piper and the Piper Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Piper Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Piper family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 7233 people with the Piper surname in the UK? Piper is now ranked number 823 for popularity in the UK. |
Piper Family History Databases
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Piper Forums
There are a number of forums which are dedicated to rearching particular surnames. These can be good places to share your findings and also to tap into the knowledge that others may already have. These can sometimes be a good way of finding living relations as these tend not to show up on the other sources of information for privacy reasons.
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Miscellaneous Piper Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Arthur Piper. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Arthur Piper
Arthur Lewis Piper
Arthur Lewis Piper (31 December 1883 – 1983) was a medical missionary in the Belgian Congo, supported by the Detroit Epworth League. He worked for the Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the most remote mission station near Kapanga in the Belgian Congo. Piper helped the Lunda tribe battle malaria, sleeping sickness, and leprosy, among many other diseases.
In 1925, he encouraged use of tryparsamide to cure sleeping sickness. The drug was developed by Walter Abraham Jacobs, Michael Heidelberger, Louise Pearce, and Wade Hampton Brown of the Rockefeller Foundation and tested in the Belgian Congo in 1920 by Louise Pearce. He also established the area's first leper treatment center in 1932 and the first tuberculosis treatment center in 1939.
Source: Arthur Lewis Piper, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Piper
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