Setter Family History
Setter Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a stone- or bricklayer, from
Middle English setter ‘one who lays stones or bricks in
building’ (agent derivative of setten ‘to set’).English:
occupational name from Old French saietier ‘silk weaver’ (an
agent derivative of sayete, a kind of silk).English: from
an agent derivative of Middle English setten ‘to place
(decoration, on a garment or metal surface)’, probably an occupational
name for an embroiderer.German: unexplained.Norwegian: unexplained. IGI.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Setter
Name Distribution of Setter Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Setter families
 66 - 130  23 - 65 |
 1 - 22  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Setter families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Setter census records
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Setter Family Origin
Setter Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Setter Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Setter census records
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Military Service by Setter
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