Pester Family History
Pester Name Meaning
English (Devon), Dutch, and German: occupational name for a baker, from Anglo-Norman French pestour, pistour, Middle Dutch pester, pister ‘baker’ (Old French pestor, pesteur, German Pistor, from Latin pistor).Jewish (Ashkenazic): unexplained. AB Possibly a habitational name from someone from Pest, the eastern half of the city of Budapest, Hungary.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pester
Name Distribution of Pester Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pester families
 44 - 86  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pester census records
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Pester Family Origin
Pester Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Pester Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Pester
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