Wafer Family History
Wafer Name Meaning
from Anglo-Norman French wafre ‘wafer’,
alternating with wafrer, wafrour ‘waferer’, an
occupational name for a maker or seller of eucharistic wafers or thin
cakes.from an Old German personal name Waifar,
Waifer, Old French Gaifier.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wafer Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wafer families
 20 - 38  7 - 19 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wafer families
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15 - 28 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wafer census records
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Wafer Family Origin
Wafer Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Wafer
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Wafer Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Wafer census records
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Wafer Civil War Service Records
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