Nester Family History
- Nester Name Meaning
- German: presumably a topographic name from Middle High German nest ‘nest’, ‘hideout’, ‘home’, or possibly a nickname for a surly person, from a derivative of Middle High German nast ‘knot’ (see Nast). German: habitational name for someone from Nest, a place near Köslin in eastern Germany. Possibly an altered spelling of Nestor.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 165,095 Historical Documents with Nester on Ancestry
- 57,064 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,612 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,308 Military Records
- 2,419 Immigration Records
- 76,692 Member Trees
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Number of Nester families
 17 - 32  6 - 16 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nester families
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8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Nester census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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