When Stephen Luther Potter was born on 18 October 1857, in Habitant, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Henry Potter, was 35 and his mother, Catherine Ann McHugh, was 35. He died on 6 November 1857, in his hometown, at the age of 0, and was buried in Habitant, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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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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