Waterman Family History
Waterman Name Meaning
English: occupational name for the servant of a man called
Wa(l)ter (see Water 1).English and Dutch:
occupational name for a boatman or a water carrier, or a topographic
name for someone who lived by a stretch of water (see Water 2).Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Wasserman(n), an occupational name for a water-carrier. Compare
2 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
579,128
Historical Documents & Family Trees with Waterman
Name Distribution of Waterman Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Waterman families
 266 - 530  89 - 265 |
 1 - 88  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waterman families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Waterman census records
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Waterman Family Origin
Waterman Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Waterman Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Waterman census records
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Military Service by Waterman
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