Cotten Family History
Cotten Name Meaning
English: variant spelling of Cotton.Possibly an altered spelling of German Kotten, a
habitational name from any of several places so named in Rhineland,
Westphalia, Silesia, etc., or an Americanized shortened form of
composite German surnames such as Kottenhagen,
Kottenhoff, Kottenkamp (see Koth).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cotten
Name Distribution of Cotten Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cotten families
 31 - 59  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cotten families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cotten census records
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Cotten Family Origin
Cotten Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cotten Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cotten census records
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Military Service by Cotten
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