Weller Family History
- Weller Name Meaning
- Southern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream, an agent derivative of Well. North German: variant of Welle, cognate with 1. German: from an agent derivative of Middle High German wëllen ‘to roll, revolve, or smear’, hence an occupational name for someone who made wattle and daub walls. German: from Middle High German wëllen ‘to cause to boil or simmer’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a smelter, cook, or the like. German: from Middle High German wëlle ‘roll’, ‘bale’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who sold cloth or wool, for example.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,113,475 Historical Documents with Weller on Ancestry
- 436,986 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 243,770 Census and Voter Lists
- 31,717 Military Records
- 29,062 Immigration Records
- 371,940 Member Trees
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Number of Weller families
 577 - 1,152  193 - 576 |
 1 - 192  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Weller families
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45 - 88 16 - 44 |
1 - 15 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Weller census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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