Waller Family History
Waller Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone living near a wall (in
particular, the wall of a city), or an occupational name for a mason
who built walls (see Wall).English: topographic name for
someone who lived by a prominent wall, for example a Roman wall or the
wall of a walled city (see Wall 2).English: occupational
name for someone who boiled sea water to extract the salt, from an
agent derivative of Middle English well(en) ‘to
boil’.English: nickname for a good-humored person, Anglo-Norman
French wall(i)er (an agent derivative of Old French
galer ‘to make merry’, of Germanic origin).South German:
nickname from Middle High German wallære ‘pilgrim’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Waller
Name Distribution of Waller Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Waller families
 809 - 1,616  270 - 808 |
 1 - 269  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waller families
|
14 - 26 5 - 13 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Waller census records
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Waller Family Origin
Waller Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Waller families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Waller Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Waller families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Waller Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Waller census records
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Military Service by Waller
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