Trotter Family History
Trotter Name Meaning
Northern English and Scottish: occupational name for a
messenger, from an agent derivative of Middle English trot(en)
‘to walk fast’ (Old French troter, of Germanic origin, akin to
2 below).German: occupational name for a grape-treader, from a
derivative of Middle High German trot(t)e ‘winepress’. The word
and the surname are confined largely to Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland,
and Swabia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Trotter
Name Distribution of Trotter Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Trotter families
 315 - 627  106 - 314 |
 1 - 105  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Trotter families
|
115 - 228 39 - 114 |
1 - 38 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Trotter census records
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Trotter Family Origin
Trotter Emigration Information (US)
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to the United States.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Trotter Emigration Information (AU)
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You can find out when most of the Trotter families immigrated
to Australia.
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Trotter Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Trotter census records
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Military Service by Trotter
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