Pottinger Family History
Pottinger Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a maker or seller
of pottage, from Middle English, Old French potagier (an agent
noun from potage ‘stew’, ‘thick soup’), with an intrusive
-n-.English and Scottish: occupational name from
Old French potecaire ‘apothecary’.German: possibly a
habitational name from a place called Potting in Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Pottinger
Name Distribution of Pottinger Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Pottinger families
 52 - 101  18 - 51 |
 1 - 17  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Pottinger families
|
74 - 146 25 - 73 |
1 - 24 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pottinger census records
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Pottinger Family Origin
Pottinger Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Pottinger Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Pottinger census records
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