Researching William Edgar
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 4611 people with the Edgar surname? In that year Edgar was ranked number 922 for popularity in the UK. |
The name William means "resolute guardian" and is of German origin.
Records of William Edgar on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Edgar and the Edgar Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Edgar Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Edgar family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 7126 people with the Edgar surname in the UK? Edgar is now ranked number 837 for popularity in the UK. |
Edgar Family History Databases
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Edgar Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Edgar surname in the USA? Edgar is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
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Study the Ellis Island Database for information on William Edgar. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called William Edgar
William Edgar (engineer)
William Edgar CBE (born 1938) is a British mechanical engineer, who was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004.
He is a graduate from Strathclyde University and Birmingham University with an MSc in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics.In 1990, he became Chief Executive of the National Engineering Laboratory.
He gave the George Stephenson Lecture on "The challenges of offshore oil and gas deepwater".He was Director of Seaforth Engineering, which built the Underwater Training Centre at Fort William, Scotland and the National Hyperbaric Centre at Aberdeen. He was a Group Director of the John Wood Group, was Chairman of the J.P. Kenny Group for ten years, and on the board of Subsea UK.
He was appointed CBE in the 2004 New Year Honours.
Source: William Edgar (engineer), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaWilliam Edgar (politician)
William Haslem Edgar (21 January 1858 – 6 June 1948) was an Australian politician.
He was born at St Arnaud to Irish-born engineer Edward Edgar and Mary, née Haslem. He attended St Arnaud Public School and Stawell Grammar School before working in a Melbourne warehouse for five years. He married his first wife, Elizabeth Cecelia Bingley, around 1887. He worked as a draper in Dunolly and served on the borough council from 1885 to 1886 before moving to Melbourne in around 1888 to work as an estate agent. In 1902 he was elected to Malvern City Council, serving as mayor from 1906 to 1907 and leaving the council in 1909. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1904 as the non-Labor member for Melbourne West, holding the seat until his defeat in 1913. During this period he was minister without portfolio from 1909 to 1912 and Minister for Public Works and Health from 1912 to 1913. After running unsuccessfully in a Legislative Council by-election for East Yarra in 1913, for the Senate in 1914 and for Gippsland in 1916, he returned to the Council in 1917 after winning another by-election for East Yarra. He served until his death in 1948.
Source: William Edgar (politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Edgar
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