The bratcher Surname
bratcher Name Meaning and History
- English: variant of Brach 2, the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
- Probably a partly Americanized form of Swiss German Bretscher, an occupational name for a sawyer, from Brett ‘plank’, ‘board’ + scher, a reduced form of Scherer ‘cutter’, a derivative of scheren ‘to cut’, ‘sever’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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