Pottebaum Family History
- Pottebaum Name Meaning
- German: partly standardized form of North German Pottböhm(er). The first part was misinterpreted as ‘pot’ (see Pott 4): In fact, it derives from dialect pot ‘puddle’ + Middle Low German bom ‘tree’ (standard German Baum) and was probably a distinguishing name or a topographic name for someone who grew trees on a low-lying plot of land, from Middle Low German bom (standard German Baum) ‘tree’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 8,438 Historical Documents with Pottebaum on Ancestry
- 2,326 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,159 Census and Voter Lists
- 260 Military Records
- 79 Immigration Records
- 4,614 Member Trees
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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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