Westerman Family History
- Westerman Name Meaning
- English: from Old English wester or westerne ‘western’ + mann ‘man’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a regional name for one who had migrated from further west. Americanized spelling of Westermann.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 230,401 Historical Documents with Westerman on Ancestry
- 94,986 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 47,165 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,368 Military Records
- 5,753 Immigration Records
- 76,129 Member Trees
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Number of Westerman families
 392 - 782  131 - 391 |
 1 - 130  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Westerman families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Westerman 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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