Wanamaker Family History
Wanamaker Name Meaning
Altered spelling of Dutch Wannemaeker ‘maker of winnowing
baskets’. A winnowing basket is a type of object that is now quite
unknown, except perhaps in a few museums, but was familiar on every
farm in Europe in bygone centuries. Compare the German cognate
Wannemacher.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wanamaker
Name Distribution of Wanamaker Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wanamaker census records
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Wanamaker Family Origin
Wanamaker Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Wanamaker Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Wanamaker census records
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Military Service by Wanamaker
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