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painter Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English, Old French peinto(u)r, oblique case of peintre ‘painter’, hence an occupational name for a painter (normally of colored glass). In the Middle Ages the walls of both great and minor churches were covered with painted decorations, and Reaney and Wilson note that in 1308 Hugh le Peyntour and Peter the Pavier were employed ‘making and painting the pavement’ at St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster. The name is widespread in central and southern England.
  2. German: topographic name for someone living in a fenced enclosure (see Bainter).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of painter Families in the US in 1920
Number of painter families
 273-543
 92-272		 1-91
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martha Ellen Painter painter,gill,doyle,collins 26
Tobias & Jacob Painter - PA. Married to Lobingiers beth_hennessey 6
Painter DNA Project MarkPainter 0
painter/ panther, pauther, pander jrmcsw 0
Painter; John & Cornelia kswulfcub1 0
George Bender/Painter 1730's - 1817 MarkPainter 5
William Painter and Donald Painter cagranderson 1
Does anyone know of this David Painter? mikeinkaty 0
John A. Painter and descendents Wendy Painter Randall 33
Painters in NC, etc. Jefff Gossett 49
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