Widmer Family History
- Widmer Name Meaning
- German: from Middle High German widemer ‘tenant of land or property belonging to a church’, an agent derivative of widem ‘prebend’. German: variant of Wittmer 1. English: habitational name from Widmere in Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, named from Old English widig ‘willow’ + mere ‘pool’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 117,728 Historical Documents with Widmer on Ancestry
- 57,014 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,591 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,417 Military Records
- 4,889 Immigration Records
- 38,817 Member Trees
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Number of Widmer families
 7 - 11  3 - 6 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Widmer 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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