Slaughter Family History
Slaughter Name Meaning
occupational name for a slaughterer of animals, from
Middle English slahter (an agent derivative of slaht
‘killing’).topographic name from Middle English sloghtre
‘boggy place’, or a habitational name from a place named with this
term (Old English slohtre), for example Upper and Lower
Slaughter in Gloucestershire.topographic name for someone who
lived by a blackthorn or sloe, Old English slahtreow.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Slaughter
Name Distribution of Slaughter Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Slaughter families
 193 - 383  65 - 192 |
 1 - 64  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Slaughter families
|
170 - 337 57 - 169 |
1 - 56 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Slaughter families
|
3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Slaughter census records
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Slaughter Family Origin
Slaughter Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Slaughter
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Slaughter Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Slaughter census records
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