Vater Family History
Vater Name Meaning
North German: nickname or status name from Middle Low German
vater ‘father’, ‘person of seniority or higher rank’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Vater
Name Distribution of Vater Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Vater families
 19 - 35  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Vater census records
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Vater Family Origin
Vater Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Vater Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Vater census records
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Military Service by Vater
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