Schutter Family History
- Schutter Name Meaning
- North German (Schütter): occupational name for a guard, watchman or warden, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German schutten ‘to protect’. See also Schuetz. Dutch: occupational name for a bowman, subsequently a status name for a member of a marksman’s guild, Middle Dutch scut(t)ere. This was also an occupational name for an official who impounded stray cattle.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 52,186 Historical Documents with Schutter on Ancestry
- 34,236 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,976 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,868 Military Records
- 1,389 Immigration Records
- 9,717 Member Trees
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Number of Schutter families
 3 - 3  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Schutter census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Schutter census records
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