Hester Family History
Hester Name Meaning
North German: topographic name for someone who lived by a
conspicuous beech tree, Middle Low German hester.Irish
(mainly County Mayo): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
hOistir ‘descendant of Oistir’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Hester
Name Distribution of Hester Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hester families
 170 - 338  57 - 169 |
 1 - 56  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hester families
|
19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hester census records
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Hester Family Origin
Hester Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Hester Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Hester Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Hester census records
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Military Service by Hester
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