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slaughter Name Meaning and History

  1. occupational name for a slaughterer of animals, from Middle English slahter (an agent derivative of slaht ‘killing’).
  2. topographic name from Middle English sloghtre ‘boggy place’, or a habitational name from a place named with this term (Old English slohtre), for example Upper and Lower Slaughter in Gloucestershire.
  3. topographic name for someone who lived by a blackthorn or sloe, Old English slahtreow.

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

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Distribution of slaughter Families in the US in 1920
Number of slaughter families
 193-383
 65-192		 1-64
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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