Cotter Family History
Cotter Name Meaning
Irish (co. Cork): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac
Oitir ‘son of Oitir’, a personal name borrowed from Old
Norse Óttarr, composed of the elements ótti
‘fear’, ‘dread’ + herr ‘army’.English: status name from
Middle English cotter, a technical term in the feudal system
for a serf or bond tenant who held a cottage by service rather than
rent, from Old English cot ‘cottage’, ‘hut’ (see Coates)
+ -er agent suffix.Probably an Americanized spelling of
German Kotter.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cotter
Name Distribution of Cotter Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cotter families
 147 - 291  50 - 146 |
 1 - 49  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cotter families
|
20 - 38 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cotter census records
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Cotter Family Origin
Cotter Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cotter Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Cotter Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Cotter census records
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Military Service by Cotter
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