Sauter Family History
- Sauter Name Meaning
- German: occupational name for a shoemaker or cobbler (one who sews leather), Middle High German suter (from Latin sutor, an agent derivative of suere ‘to sew’). English: variant of Salter. Dutch: occupational name for a producer or seller of salt, from an agent derivative of zout ‘salt’. Compare Salter 1.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 330,206 Historical Documents with Sauter on Ancestry
- 212,416 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 21,213 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,141 Military Records
- 5,035 Immigration Records
- 83,401 Member Trees
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Number of Sauter families
 14 - 25  5 - 13 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Sauter 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
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