Wager Family History
Wager Name Meaning
English: unexplained.German (also
Wäger), Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle
High German wæger ‘weigher’, German Waager, an
occupational name for an official responsible for weighing produce,
especially produce offered as rent in kind, or for an official in
charge of checking weights and measures used by merchants.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Wager
Name Distribution of Wager Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wager families
 157 - 312  53 - 156 |
 1 - 52  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wager families
|
110 - 218 37 - 109 |
1 - 36 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Wager families
|
7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Wager census records
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Wager Family Origin
Wager Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Wager
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Wager Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Wager census records
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Wager Civil War Service Records
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