Sorter Family History
Sorter Name Meaning
Origin unidentified. In part English, a variant of Sarter,
a topographic name for someone who lived in a woodland clearing, from
Old English assart, essart ‘clearing in woodland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Sorter Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sorter families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sorter families
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11 - 19 4 - 10 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sorter census records
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Sorter Family Origin
Sorter Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sorter
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Sorter Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sorter census records
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Sorter Civil War Service Records
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