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waters Name Meaning and History

  1. English: patronymic from an altered form of the personal name Walter.
  2. English: variant of Water 2.
  3. Irish: when not the English surname, an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example Haskin, Hiskey, Tydings).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of waters Families in the US in 1920
Number of waters families
 461-920
 154-460		 1-153
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Threads: 1353 - Messages: 2988
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Agnes Waters from Minnesota related to Vashon/Demers JRDemmers 0
James W. Watters/Watters-Illinois DonaldRaetzman 7
WATERS of Hall County, GA to NC pennyseeker 1
Searching for family Margaret Waters Crowder 8
Irish Waters hiers 4
Waters,Thomas,b.Ireland1835, Louisville, KY E_Ringler 2
James William Waters SR kimmiredneck 0
Richard Waters of Essex Co Va oclarke11 0
looking for waters from arkansas lillian waters bruce 3
Elijah Moses Waters/Watters, Elijah Collum Watters, Nancy Rue LindaLeeWaters48 0
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