When Margaret Dotterer was born about 1775, her father, Isaac Dodderer, was 31 and her mother, Mrs. Isaac Dodderer, was 32. She had at least 1 daughter with Benjamin Hunt.
German (also Dötterer):
variant of Dotter and Dötter.
possibly also a nickname for a person with a tottering gait, from a dialect agent noun based on dottern ‘to totter’. Compare Dethrow , Dettra , Dettro , Dutro , Dutterer , Tedrow , Totherow , and Tutterow .
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