Easter Family History
- Easter Name Meaning
- English: topographic name for someone living to the east of a main settlement, from Middle English easter ‘eastern’, Old English easterra, in form a comparative of east ‘east’ (see East). English: habitational name from a group of villages in Essex, named from Old English eowestre ‘sheepfold’. English: nickname for someone who had some connection with the festival of Easter, such as being born or baptized at that time (Old English eastre, perhaps from the name of a pagan festival connected with the dawn). Translation of the German family name Oster.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 449,229 Historical Documents with Easter on Ancestry
- 114,693 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 69,277 Census and Voter Lists
- 11,325 Military Records
- 3,547 Immigration Records
- 250,387 Member Trees
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Number of Easter families
 61 - 119  21 - 60 |
 1 - 20  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Easter families
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150 - 298 51 - 149 |
1 - 50 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Easter families
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Easter census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Easter census records
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- All Easter
- 216
- Confederate
- 90
- Union
- 126
from the Civil War Service Records
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