Otterson Family History
- Otterson Name Meaning
- Americanized spelling of Norwegian Ottersen, a patronymic from the personal name Ottar, Old Norse Óttarr, from ótt ‘something fearful’, ‘danger’ + -arr ‘warrior’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 45,627 Historical Documents with Otterson on Ancestry
- 13,664 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,952 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,918 Military Records
- 1,634 Immigration Records
- 19,459 Member Trees
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Number of Otterson families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Otterson families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Otterson census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Otterson census records
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