The ware Surname

ware Name Meaning and History

topographic name for someone who lived by a dam or weir on a river (Old English wær, wer), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Ware in Hertfordshire.
nickname for a cautious person, from Middle English war(e) ‘wary’, ‘prudent’ (Old English (ge)wær).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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ware Family Facts

Distribution of ware Families in the US in 1920

Number of ware families

302-601

101-301

1-100

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 978 - Messages: 2568

Thread	Author	Replies
family tree for William Ware	LaVergne R. Ware	8
John Ware B.1808 Howkem	annepjones1	0
Caroline Ware (1846-?)	escoer	3
WARE Perry Vernon 1922-1968	t42Moore	0
CURRY Anna WARE 1921-1976	t42Moore	0
Claude N. Ware awarded $35,000 in case against W. G. Worden	maryachtrh	0
Rev Charles Ware	jokeweb	2
WARE Peggy J 1925-	t42Moore	0
WARE Paul E Sr 1921-1988	t42Moore	0
WARE Bennie B 1895-1979	t42Moore	0

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