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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch or North German : topographic name (also Watterstradt ‘water street’) for someone who lived by the water or along a canal; or a habitational name from Waterstraat in East Flanders, Belgium, which was carried over to Pennsylvania as the place name Waterstreet.

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