Easter Family History
Easter Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone living to the east of a
main settlement, from Middle English easter ‘eastern’, Old
English easterra, in form a comparative of east
‘east’ (see East).English: habitational name from a group
of villages in Essex, named from Old English eowestre
‘sheepfold’.English: nickname for someone who had some connection
with the festival of Easter, such as being born or baptized at that
time (Old English eastre, perhaps from the name of a pagan
festival connected with the dawn).Translation of the
German family name Oster.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Easter
Name Distribution of Easter Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Easter families
 150 - 298  51 - 149 |
 1 - 50  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Easter families
|
12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Easter census records
You can see how Easter families moved over time by selecting different Census years.
Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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Easter Family Origin
Easter Emigration Information (US)
Click on a circle in the chart to view Easter emigration records
You can find out when most of the Easter families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Easter Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Easter families immigrated
to Australia.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Easter Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Easter census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Easter ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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Military Service by Easter
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