When William Trotter was born on 1 October 1857, in Greenlaw, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, William Trotter, was 23 and his mother, Janet Hopper, was 23. He married Hilda Lilge on 10 February 1897, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Alberta, Northwest Territories, Canada in 1901. He died on 8 May 1906, in Lacombe, Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 48, and was buried in Lacombe, Lacombe County, Alberta, Canada.
English (northern; also found in southern Scotland): perhaps from an unrecorded sense of Middle English trotter ‘one who rides a trotting horse’, a derivative of Middle English trotten ‘to ride at a trot, at a fast pace’. It may have been given to a messenger (see Trotman ). Alternatively, perhaps from a shortened form of an unrecorded Middle English trotterer ‘dealer in trotting horses’, a derivative of Middle English trotter (Old French trotier) ‘horse that trots’.
German: occupational name for a vintner, from a derivative of Middle High German trot(t)e ‘winepress’ (a loan translation from Latin calcatura). The word and the surname are confined largely to Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland, and Swabia.
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