Waugh Family History
- Waugh Name Meaning
- Scottish and northern English: of disputed origin. It is most likely from Old English (Anglian) walh ‘foreign’ (see Wallace), perhaps applied originally to the Welsh-speaking Strathclyde Britons, who survived as a separate group in Scotland well into the Middle Ages.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 666,828 Historical Documents with Waugh on Ancestry
- 208,662 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 160,967 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,384 Military Records
- 17,469 Immigration Records
- 259,346 Member Trees
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Number of Waugh families
 378 - 754  127 - 377 |
 1 - 126  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Waugh families
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52 - 102 18 - 51 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Waugh 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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