The trotter Surname
trotter Name Meaning and History
- Northern English and Scottish: occupational name for a messenger, from an agent derivative of Middle English trot(en) ‘to walk fast’ (Old French troter, of Germanic origin, akin to 2 below).
- German: occupational name for a grape-treader, from a derivative of Middle High German trot(t)e ‘winepress’. The word and the surname are confined largely to Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland, and Swabia.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| Trotter's of Langsdale, MS |
 GlendaMeredith
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| Claude A. Trotter & Grace Stark | Candy Riggleman | 3 |
| John Dillard Trotter Obituary 1974 |
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| Lloyd Edward TROTTER (1927-2009) |
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| (correction) Collie May Trotter or Rhae Trotter | Brooke Berndt | 4 |
| Trotter family | Debra (Trotter) Walker | 17 |
| TROTTER son 1952 |
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| Trotters from MS | Rhonda | 10 |
| James Trotter married Bessie Lawson 1621 in Dunfermline Fifeshire |
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| Trotters of Perth, Scotland |
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