The pottinger Surname
pottinger Name Meaning and History
- English and Scottish: occupational name for a maker or seller of pottage, from Middle English, Old French potagier (an agent noun from potage ‘stew’, ‘thick soup’), with an intrusive -n-.
- English and Scottish: occupational name from Old French potecaire ‘apothecary’.
- German: possibly a habitational name from a place called Potting in Bavaria.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| RACHEL POTTINGER PURNELL |
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| Pottinger family |
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| Pottingers elsewhere in the world | Barry Pottinger | 40 |
| pottinger family tree | william edward pottinger | 5 |
| Pottinger-Pottenger Progeny by Alice Smythe McCabe |
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| Mary POTTE(I)NGER of South Stoke, Oxfordshire | Alan Thatcher | 1 |
| pottinger family tree | William E. Pottinger | 35 |
| Charles Pottinger |
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| John James Pottinger - Shetland |
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