Walder Family History
- Walder Name Meaning
- English: variant of Wald, with the addition of the habitational suffix -er. German: habitational name from any of several places called Wald, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a forest or wood, Middle High German walt.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 135,380 Historical Documents with Walder on Ancestry
- 53,009 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 38,140 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,889 Military Records
- 5,141 Immigration Records
- 34,201 Member Trees
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Number of Walder families
 218 - 434  73 - 217 |
 1 - 72  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Walder families
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5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Walder 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 1881 UK Census Data
Walder census records
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