Washer Family History
Washer Name Meaning
English: from an agent derivative of Middle English
wasch(en) ‘to wash’ (Old English wæscan), hence an
occupational name for a laundryman, or for someone who washed raw wool
before spinning. Various other occupations, too, involved washing
processes and the name may relate to any of these. For example, it may
have denoted a man who washed sheep; some tenants on the manor of
Burpham, near Worthing, in Sussex (where the surname is found from an
early date), had as part of their feudal service to wash the flocks of
their master.Americanized spelling of the German cognate
Wascher.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Washer Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Washer families
 58 - 114  20 - 57 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Washer families
|
3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Washer Family Origin
Washer Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Washer Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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Military Service by Washer
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