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Origin of Otte Total Records: 10  Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: What I was told by my grandparents was the name was taken from a mountain . The Matterhorn, where the orginal family came from .Not being good at geography its in that part of Germany or Switzerland near France. Surnames: Matter, Mattern, Mottern Submitted by: Martha Jane Long Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: It is most commonly believed that the name Marcotte is derived from the French verb 'marcotter.' To 'marcotte' is a technique by which a branch of a tree is made to sprout its own roots before being detached from the mother plant. Such 'marcotting' is a process employed in vineyards, for example. The late Father Jean Marcotte, a Capuchin monk and primary genealogist of the Marcotte families suggested in his Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Marcotte that there may also be some link to the name Margot. Father Jean Macotte reported that F?camp archivist Jean LeMaitre (also a Marcotte descendant) notes that a monk named Hughes Margot was sent to King Harold of England, by William the Conqueror to seek a compromise, prior to the Norman invasion of England. The failure of that mission led to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The relevance of this information is that William the Conqueror (the Duke of Normandy), upon landing in England made his encampment in the friendly territory of the Norman Monks of F?camp, who held land near Hastings (click here or here to view source). According to the midieval historian Robert Wace (writing in the mid 1100s) Hughes Margot was one of these F?camp monks. F?camp, of course, is the city of ancestral oriMichael Erskine Surnames: Marcotte Submitted by: Michael Erskine Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: Variants of the name Ketter are regional spellings, common in Wesphalia Germany. The surname Ketter is an ancient Teutonic word used to describe a soldier who wears chain mail armor. The word has been in use since before the 5th century, when Germanic soldiers went to England. The village in England named Kettering means, village of Ketters. Surnames: Ketter, Koetter, Kotter Submitted by: Paul S. Ketter Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: also Mattern,Matern,Mathern. Believed to be from Switzerland originally. Surnames: Mottern Submitted by: Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: Proper spelling of the family name is Kotteritzsch with an Umlat(two small dots) above the 'o'. In English the letter e replaces the umlat - Koetteritzsch. It has been traced back to a small village named Koetteritzsch south of Leipzig, Germany -lower Saxony-Anhalt. Surnames: Kotteritzsch Submitted by: David Kettrick Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: Carlsson is a swedish name and it means "the son fo Carl" If the fathers name was Carl Svenson then the oldest son was often named Sven Carlson. If the child was a daughter her surname would be Carlsdotter, dotter=daughter. The same idea applies for Danish and Norwegian names to. Surnames: Carlson/Carlsdotter Submitted by: An-Che Minneskjold Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: A runner between friendly forces. Surnames: Trotter Submitted by: Bill Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: Sweden Surnames: Anderson and Anderdotter Submitted by: Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: Caille - old French for churning or churned milk - Botte from the container it was churned in. Also a term for whey when making artisanal cheeses. Surnames: Caillibotte; Caillebotte; Caillibot Submitted by: Caillibotte Origin of Otte, Meaning of Otte Origin: The German family name Goethe is classified as being of nickname origin. Surnames which are derived from a nickname are said to contribute one of the widest and most varied class of family names. This particular category emcompasses many different types of origin. The most obvious are those names which are based on a physical characteristic or personal attribute of the initial barer. In this particular instance, the surname Goethe is derived from the Middle High German "götte, gotte" which literally indiciates "godparent". Thus, this term would have been applied to one who was the godparent of an important person in the community. Alternatively, this surname is of personal name origin, derived from the first name of the father of the initial barer. Here the name indicates "son of Göte", a pet form of first names derived from the Old High German "Got" meaning "God". Variants of the surname include Gotti, Götti, Gotte, Goth,and Göd. One of the earliest references to this name or to a variant is a record of on Cuonr. der Göthe who appears in documents relating to Villingen in 1329. However, research is of course ongoing and this name may have been documented even earlier then the date indicated above. Hsnsli Gotti is recorded as residing in the Unterbaldingen in 1398. We also read of the marriage of Friedrich Georg Goethe and Anne Elisabeth Lutz (personal note: it was their son who produced George II and Heinrich who were my ancestors who came from Germany to South Carolina) in Frankfurt m Main, Hessen-Nassau, on the 18th of April 1687. Ernst Wilhelm Gienther Goethe, son of Johann Daniel Bernhard Goethe and Auguste Wilhelmine Bohnhardt, was born in Koethen, Anhalt, Fraureuth, Reuss-Aeltere-Linie, Thuringen, on June 22nd, 1839. Surnames: Goethe, Goettee, Gotti, Götti, Gotte, Goth, Göd Submitted by: Allison Goettee (Goethe) Newton 2/17/2012 2:48 PM Page 1 of 1

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