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The bratcher Surname

bratcher Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Brach 2, the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
  2. 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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Distribution of bratcher Families in the US in 1920
Number of bratcher families
 90-178
 31-89		 1-30
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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