The Feaster surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,871 people carried this name — #6,900 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 60,600 people counted. That is up 8% from 4,507 in 2000.
In print
Feaster in American newspapers,
1885–1918.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
In print
Feaster in Australian newspapers,
1860s–1950s.
33 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Feaster. The most, 7, date from the 1890s.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Feaster.
Who carried it
People named Feaster,
with a public archive behind them.
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Bill Feaster 1904–1950
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Carl Feaster 1930–1981 · composer
Wikidata (CC0) · 6 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Feaster,
in the records of the United States.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States220 records
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 103
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 60
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 49
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 4
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 2
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 1
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Hubert FeasterBorn 1917 in Texas. Enlisted 1942 at Abilene; farm hand from Mitchell County. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 2000, buried at Pyron Cemetery, Colorado City, Texas.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record William Newcomer FeasterBorn 1938; from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. U.S. Army, chaplain; died of wounds 1966 in South Vietnam.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Hannah FeasterArrived at New York in 1852 aboard the Southampton from Liverpool, aged 20; servant. From Wales.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 220 records for Feaster in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Feaster.
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