The waller Surname
waller Name Meaning and History
- English: topographic name for someone living near a wall (in particular, the wall of a city), or an occupational name for a mason who built walls (see Wall).
- English: topographic name for someone who lived by a prominent wall, for example a Roman wall or the wall of a walled city (see Wall 2).
- English: occupational name for someone who boiled sea water to extract the salt, from an agent derivative of Middle English well(en) ‘to boil’.
- English: nickname for a good-humored person, Anglo-Norman French wall(i)er (an agent derivative of Old French galer ‘to make merry’, of Germanic origin).
- South German: nickname from Middle High German wallære ‘pilgrim’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Thread | Author | Replies |
| William A. Waller |
 BarbaraDBrown
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| Ida Mae Waller m.Earnest R. Bass/ Wytheville VA |
usafvet1
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| William Waller, Died 1749, Caroline, VA |
DinaBeattie
| 1 |
| Wallers from Fries, VA areas |
tlalley64
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| Descendents of John Waller Ida Gossett | Lil Palmer | 1 |
| Waller Pictures | Jeanette Cobb | 6 |
| waller's in Butler county Alabama |
daphnewaller
| 5 |
| Flower Waller |
acoxall57
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| WALLER Willis Arlon 1927-1980 |
t42RoseHill
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| Waller ancestry | F. Edgar Waller | 5 |
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