Everyone knows that final names like Miller, Smith, and Baker mirror the occupations of our ancestors. However what of Waters, Waterman, Drinkwater, Westwater, Waterhouse, Waterford, Waterfield, and Van de Water, to single out just some? Do these of us hail from a protracted line of champion swimmers? Have been their forerunners helpful with a divining rod? Or, in line with our occupational theme, have been these distant kinfolk water laborers…
