Auchter Family History
- Auchter Name Meaning
- South German: occupational name for someone who minded cattle at night, from Middle High German uhte ‘night watch’, ‘night pasture’, or ‘time just before dawn’. Scottish: topographic name from Gaelic uachdar ‘upland’, ‘summit’, or a habitational name from a place in Perthshire named with this word.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,239 Historical Documents with Auchter on Ancestry
- 13,661 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,637 Census and Voter Lists
- 422 Military Records
- 337 Immigration Records
- 4,182 Member Trees
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Number of Auchter families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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