Wachter Family History
Wachter Name Meaning
German (also Wächter) and Dutch: occupational name for a watchman, from Middle High
German wachtære, wehtære, Middle Dutch
wacht(e)re, German Wachter ‘watchman’, ‘guard’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Wachter ‘watchman’,
perhaps an occupational name by a synagogue beadle (Yiddish
shames).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wachter
Name Distribution of Wachter Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wachter families
 63 - 123  22 - 62 |
 1 - 21  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wachter families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wachter census records
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Wachter Family Origin
Wachter Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Wachter
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Wachter Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Wachter census records
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Wachter Civil War Service Records
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