Waycaster Family History
- Waycaster Name Meaning
- Probably an Americanized form of German Weckesser. This name has the form of an English habitational name formed with Old English cæster ‘Roman walled city’, but neither the place name nor the surname are found in English records.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,321 Historical Documents with Waycaster on Ancestry
- 5,467 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,269 Census and Voter Lists
- 582 Military Records
- 39 Immigration Records
- 7,964 Member Trees
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Number of Waycaster families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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