Wagstaff Family History
Wagstaff Name Meaning
occupational nickname
for an official who carried a staff of office, from Middle English
wag(gen) ‘to brandish or shake’ + staff ‘staff’,
‘rod’.obscene nickname for a medieval ‘flasher’, one who
brandished his ‘staff’ publicly.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wagstaff
Name Distribution of Wagstaff Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wagstaff families
 292 - 581  98 - 291 |
 1 - 97  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wagstaff families
|
28 - 54 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wagstaff census records
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Wagstaff Family Origin
Wagstaff Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Wagstaff Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wagstaff census records
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Military Service by Wagstaff
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