When Frances Waters was born in August 1888, in Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States, her father, David J. Walters, was 33 and her mother, Isabelle, was 31. She lived in Alligator Township, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States in 1900.
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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