When Joseph Potter was born on 24 September 1758, in Sheepshed, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Richard Potter, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Keightley, was 23. He was buried in Sheepshed, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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English and Dutch; North German (Pötter): occupational name for a maker of drinking and storage vessels, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Middle Low German pot. In the Middle Ages the term covered workers in metal as well as earthenware and clay.
In some cases also an Americanized form (translation into English) of Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Lončar ‘potter’ (see Loncar ), and probably also of cognates from some other languages, e.g. Czech Hrnčíř (see Hrncir ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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