Water Family History
- Water Name Meaning
- English: variant of Walter, representing the normal medieval pronunciation of the name. English and German (Rhineland): topographic name for someone who lived by a stretch of water, Middle English, Low German water. Irish: adopted as an English translation of Gaelic Ó Fuartháin (see Foran), being wrongly taken as Ó Fuaruisce ‘son of cold water’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 135,065 Historical Documents with Water on Ancestry
- 61,188 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 21,925 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,770 Military Records
- 4,420 Immigration Records
- 44,762 Member Trees
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Number of Water families
 18 - 34  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Water families
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13 - 23 5 - 12 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Water families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Water 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
Water census records
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- All Water
- 29
- Confederate
- 8
- Union
- 21
from the Civil War Service Records
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