Cotten Family History
Cotten Name Meaning
English: variant spelling of Cotton.Possibly an altered spelling of German Kotten, a
habitational name from any of several places so named in Rhineland,
Westphalia, Silesia, etc., or an Americanized shortened form of
composite German surnames such as Kottenhagen,
Kottenhoff, Kottenkamp (see Koth).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cotten
Name Distribution of Cotten Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cotten families
 25 - 47  9 - 24 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cotten families
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31 - 59 11 - 30 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cotten families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Cotten census records
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Cotten Family Origin
Cotten Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Cotten
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions.
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Cotten Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Cotten census records
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Cotten Civil War Service Records
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