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Bratcher Name Meaning
English: variant of Brach 2, the suffix -er
denoting an inhabitant.Probably a partly Americanized form
of Swiss German Bretscher, an occupational name for a sawyer,
from Brett ‘plank’, ‘board’ + scher, a reduced form of
Scherer ‘cutter’, a derivative of scheren ‘to cut’,
‘sever’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bratcher Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bratcher families
 90 - 178  31 - 89 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bratcher families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bratcher families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bratcher Family Origin
Bratcher Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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Bratcher Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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