Cater Family History
Cater Name Meaning
English: occupational name for the buyer of provisions for a
large household, from a reduced form of Anglo-Norman French
acatour (Late Latin acceptator, an agent derivative of
acceptare ‘to accept’). Modern English caterer results
from the addition of a second agent suffix to the word.
Slovenian (Cater): status name for a person who read out the
Slovenian ceremonial text at the installation of the Carantanian
rulers and, later, Carinthian dukes, derived from the dialect verb
catiti ‘to read’. Carantania was the early medieval
Slovenian state on the territory of present-day Carinthia and Styria,
now divided between Austria and Slovenia. The people’s installation of
the Carantanian rulers was an exceptional example of democratic
elections in medieval Europe. Thomas Jefferson knew about it and was
influenced by it in his thinking about American Independence.Perhaps also an Americanized spelling of German Köter
(see Koetter).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cater Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cater families
 32 - 62  11 - 31 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cater families
|
189 - 376 64 - 188 |
1 - 63 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cater families
|
6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cater Family Origin
Cater Immigration Information
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Cater Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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