Butter Family History
Butter Name Meaning
English: nickname for someone with some fancied resemblance to
a bittern, perhaps in the booming quality of the voice, from Middle
English, Old French butor ‘bittern’ (a word of obscure
etymology).English and German: metonymic occupational name for a
dairyman or seller of butter, from Old English butere ‘butter’,
Middle High German buter.German: possibly a short
form of any of the various compound names formed with Butter
‘butter’ (see 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Butter
Name Distribution of Butter Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Butter families
 143 - 283  48 - 142 |
 1 - 47  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Butter families
|
427 - 852 143 - 426 |
1 - 142 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Butter families
|
40 - 77 14 - 39 |
1 - 13 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Butter census records
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Butter Family Origin
Butter Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Butter
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Butter Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Butter census records
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