Atwater Family History
- Atwater Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone whose dwelling was by a river or lake, Middle English atte water ‘at the water’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 416,659 Historical Documents with Atwater on Ancestry
- 47,673 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 28,758 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,314 Military Records
- 3,610 Immigration Records
- 330,304 Member Trees
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Number of Atwater families
 9 - 15  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Atwater census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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