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The carpenter Surname

carpenter Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a worker in wood, Norman French carpentier (from Late Latin carpentarius ‘cartwright’).
  2. Translation of German Zimmermann, French Charpentier, Italian Carpentieri, or cognates and equivalents in various other languages.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The carpenter name in History

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Distribution of carpenter Families in the US in 1920
Number of carpenter families
 1015-2027
 339-1014		 1-338
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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