Waugh Family History
Waugh Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: of disputed origin. It is most
likely from Old English (Anglian) walh ‘foreign’ (see
Wallace), perhaps applied originally to the Welsh-speaking
Strathclyde Britons, who survived as a separate group in Scotland well
into the Middle Ages.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Waugh
Name Distribution of Waugh Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Waugh families
 378 - 754  127 - 377 |
 1 - 126  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waugh families
|
206 - 410 69 - 205 |
1 - 68 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Waugh census records
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Waugh Family Origin
Waugh Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Waugh Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Waugh census records
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Military Service by Waugh
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