Waxman Family History
- Waxman Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for a seller or gatherer of beeswax, from Wax with the addition of Middle English man ‘man’. Americanized spelling of the German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) cognate Wachsmann (see Wachs).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 38,605 Historical Documents with Waxman on Ancestry
- 15,260 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,755 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,589 Military Records
- 3,366 Immigration Records
- 6,635 Member Trees
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Number of Waxman families
 10 - 18  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Waxman 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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