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pitcher Name Meaning and History

  1. English (chiefly eastern and southern): from an agent derivative of Middle English pich ‘pitch’, hence an occupational name for a caulker, one who sealed the seams of ships or barrels with pitch.
  2. English: variant of Pickard 2.
  3. Possibly from German Pitscher, from the short form of a personal name formed with Old High German bitan ‘to endure’, or bittan ‘to wish or ask for’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of pitcher Families in the US in 1920
Number of pitcher families
 134-265
 45-133		 1-44
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 246 - Messages: 556
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Emily Bertha PITCHER janndg 0
I'm looking for info. on Nathen W Pitcher. amandrews1984 5
Martha Bryant, Pitcher WaynePitcher1 3
Pitchers in Upstate NY jaburke2 10
Pitchers in Ohio Stephanie Pitcher Ellinghausen 18
Pitchers N.Y./Ohio jadith1 10
Pitcher family Mo and Ks laceyloops 2
Ebenezer Pitcher donpit52 0
A story ; LEMAN HARMON PITCHER Just stayed a while DeeDavidson97 2
Raymond and George Pitcher / Trafalgar, Indiana lewmoco 15
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