Worcester Family History
- Worcester Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from the city of Worcester, named from Old English ceaster ‘Roman fort or walled city’ (Latin castra ‘legionary camp’) + a British tribal name of uncertain origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 204,824 Historical Documents with Worcester on Ancestry
- 64,962 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,717 Census and Voter Lists
- 16,083 Military Records
- 5,100 Immigration Records
- 95,962 Member Trees
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Number of Worcester families
 30 - 57  11 - 29 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Worcester census records
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- England (6)
- Great Britain (3)
- BridgUnited States of Americater,United States of America (1)
- Bygland (1)
- Ireland (1)
- Midgewater,United States of America (1)
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Worcester families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Worcester families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Worcester census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Worcester ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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