Kretzer Family History
- Kretzer Name Meaning
- nickname for a juror or a collector of legal fines. occupational name for a basketmaker or a peddler, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kretze ‘basket’. habitational name for someone from Kretz, near Mayen in the Eifel Mountains. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kratzer.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 39,112 Historical Documents with Kretzer on Ancestry
- 19,919 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,913 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,083 Military Records
- 941 Immigration Records
- 11,256 Member Trees
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Number of Kretzer families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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