When Donald Waters was born in 1936, in Michigan, United States, his father, George Waters Jr, was 29 and his mother, Gladys Marie Arens, was 28. He lived in Detroit Ward 22, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940.
English and Scottish: variant of Water 1 and 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: when not the English surname, this is an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example Haskin , Hiskey ).
History: James Waters came from London, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630. Lawrence Waters came to Charlestown, MA, from Lancaster, England, in 1675.
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