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Help[Surname] Re: Stott
in reply to a message by catrenne
Stott
English: metonymic occupational name for a cattleman, from Middle English stott ‘steer’, ‘bullock’. The term was also occasionally used in Middle English of a horse or of a heifer (and so as a term of abuse for a woman), and these senses may also lie behind some examples of the surname.
From ...http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/fact.aspx?&fid=10&fn=&ln=Stott
But I'd also add on my own that it may be related to Stuttgart ... which means "Stud" + "farm" (gard=garden=farm in many Germanic languages). So instead of a possible relation to an abused women, which I think never made the basis for a surname, your ancestors were likely cattle breeders or studs in their own right ...your story, tell it how you like ...
English: metonymic occupational name for a cattleman, from Middle English stott ‘steer’, ‘bullock’. The term was also occasionally used in Middle English of a horse or of a heifer (and so as a term of abuse for a woman), and these senses may also lie behind some examples of the surname.
From ...http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/fact.aspx?&fid=10&fn=&ln=Stott
But I'd also add on my own that it may be related to Stuttgart ... which means "Stud" + "farm" (gard=garden=farm in many Germanic languages). So instead of a possible relation to an abused women, which I think never made the basis for a surname, your ancestors were likely cattle breeders or studs in their own right ...your story, tell it how you like ...
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