Lister Family History
Lister Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dyer, Middle English
litster, an agent derivative (originally feminine; compare
Baxter) of lit(t)e(n) ‘to dye’ (Old Norse lita).
This term was used principally in East Anglia and northern and eastern
England (areas of Scandinavian settlement), and to this day the
surname is found principally in these regions, especially in
Yorkshire.Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an
Fhleisdeir ‘son of the arrow maker’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Lister
Name Distribution of Lister Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lister families
 2,044 - 4,086  682 - 2,043 |
 1 - 681  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lister families
|
136 - 270 46 - 135 |
1 - 45 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lister census records
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Lister Family Origin
Lister Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Lister Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Lister Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Lister census records
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Military Service by Lister
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