Plaster Family History
- Plaster Name Meaning
- English and North German: metonymic occupational name for a plasterer, from Middle English, Middle Low German plaster (from Latin emplastrum ‘(wound) plaster’ (originally a paste), from Greek emplastron, a derivative of emplassein ‘to shape or form’; the term was carried over into building terminology to mean ‘bonding agent’). English: habitational name from any of various places called Plaistow (in East London, Derbyshire, Sussex, and elsewhere), from Old English plegestow ‘place where people gather for sport or play’. This can also be a variant of Plaisted (through interchangeable use of the Old English elements stow and stede, both meaning ‘place’, in earlier times). German and Ashkenazic Jewish (Pflaster): from Middle High German pflaster (German Pflaster, from Latin plastrum) ‘street pavement’, ‘pavement’, cognate with 1.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 90,736 Historical Documents with Plaster on Ancestry
- 29,312 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,166 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,011 Military Records
- 821 Immigration Records
- 44,426 Member Trees
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Number of Plaster families
 40 - 78  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Plaster census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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