Wachter Family History
- Wachter Name Meaning
- German (also Wächter) and Dutch: occupational name for a watchman, from Middle High German wachtære, wehtære, Middle Dutch wacht(e)re, German Wachter ‘watchman’, ‘guard’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Wachter ‘watchman’, perhaps an occupational name by a synagogue beadle (Yiddish shames).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 211,282 Historical Documents with Wachter on Ancestry
- 118,733 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,376 Census and Voter Lists
- 15,289 Military Records
- 7,117 Immigration Records
- 47,767 Member Trees
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Number of Wachter families
 7 - 12  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wachter census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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