Salter Family History
Salter Name Meaning
English: occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt
(a precious commodity in medieval times), from Middle English
salt ‘salt’ + the agent suffix -er.English:
occupational name for a player on the psaltery, a string instrument,
Middle English, Old French saltere ‘psaltery’. (The Middle
English word is derived from Latin psalterium, Greek
psalterion, from psallein ‘to sound’).North
German form of Salzer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Salter
Name Distribution of Salter Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Salter families
 98 - 193  33 - 97 |
 1 - 32  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Salter families
|
625 - 1,247 209 - 624 |
1 - 208 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Salter families
|
19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Salter census records
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Salter Family Origin
Salter Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Salter
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Salter Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Salter census records
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