Rotter Family History
Rotter Name Meaning
variant spelling of Rother.occupational
name for the foreman or leader of a group or association of men, or a
work gang, from an agent derivative of Middle High German rotte
‘team’, ‘gang’.occupational name for a harp player, Middle High
German rottære.habitational name from any of the
various places called Rott.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Rotter
Name Distribution of Rotter Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Rotter families
 19 - 36  7 - 18 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Rotter families
|
9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rotter census records
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Rotter Family Origin
Rotter Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Rotter Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Rotter census records
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