Waters Family History
Waters Name Meaning
English: patronymic from an altered form of the personal name
Walter.English: variant of Water 2.Irish: when
not the English surname, an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names
taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example
Haskin, Hiskey, Tydings).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Waters
Name Distribution of Waters Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Waters families
 793 - 1,583  265 - 792 |
 1 - 264  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waters families
|
130 - 257 44 - 129 |
1 - 43 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Waters census records
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Waters Family Origin
Waters Emigration Information (US)
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You can find out when most of the Waters families immigrated
to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Waters Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Waters 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
Waters Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Waters census records
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Military Service by Waters
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