Wetmore Family History
Wetmore Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various minor places called
Wetmore, for example in Staffordshire, Shropshire, and Hereford and
Worcester, Wet Moor in Somerset, or Wetmoor Hall Farm in
Staffordshire, mostly named with Old English wet ‘wet’,
‘damp’ + mor ‘moor’, ‘mashland’, although the first element
of Wetmore in Staffordshire is Old English wiht ‘river bend’.
adm, UK 16; RW, GFB.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Wetmore Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Wetmore families
 75 - 148  26 - 74 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Wetmore families
|
15 - 28 6 - 14 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Wetmore Family Origin
Wetmore Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Wetmore
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Wetmore Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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