Tester Family History
Tester Name Meaning
English: nickname from Old French testard, a pejorative
derivative of teste ‘head’ (see Testa).German: from
Latin testa ‘head’, hence a nickname for someone with a large
or otherwise remarkable head, or, especially in Bavaria, a topographic
name for someone who lived at one end of a village or a row of fields,
from the same word.German: metonymic occupational name for a
silver smelter, from Bavarian test ‘furnace for refining
silver’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Tester
Name Distribution of Tester Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Tester families
 24 - 45  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Tester families
|
239 - 475 80 - 238 |
1 - 79 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Tester families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Tester census records
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Tester Family Origin
Tester Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Tester
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Tester Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Tester census records
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Tester Civil War Service Records
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