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The vester Surname

vester Name Meaning and History

  1. German: variant of Fest.
  2. Danish: topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement or who had arrived from the west, from vest ‘west’ (see Wester).
  3. Slovenian (north central Slovenia): either from a reduced form of the personal name Silvester, or from the German surname Wester.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of vester Families in the US in 1920
Number of vester families
 16-30
 6-15		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 32 - Messages: 112
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Nash County N.C.Vester Family Connections Michael D.Vester 4
Arthur Westray Vester b. 1720 IslandGirl0700 2
german vester Richard 5
Catherine “Kitty” Viola (Vester) Wakefield 1923-2006.……OBIT hitchheick 0
Fred A. Vester (1916-1968) married to Alma Naber (1917-1997) Richard Naber 5
search vester, brenda 30
William Vester Born abt. 1918 give or take JaniceHopkins27 0
vester, william SpringLakeGhostHunters 1
William B. Vester Pamela Forrest 0
Vesters in Navarro County, TX and beyond Gary Nokes 0
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