here is my potter lineage.

PED.# SURNAME 1st NAME SPOUSE PED. #

1 WOODARD ORVAL BERNICE MARAS

3 POTTER ALICE WILLIAM WOODARD 2

6 POTTER MYRON ELIZA LAUGHLIN 7

12 POTTER STILLMAN PARILLAS CROUCH 13

24 POTTER WILLIAM MARY DEARBORN 25

48 POTTER BARNABAS MARY TAYLOR 49

96 POTTER THEOPHILUS LOIS WALKER 97

192 POTTER EPHRIAM SARAH WITT 193

384 POTTER ROBERT MARTHA HALL 385

768 POTTER ROBERT RUTH DRIVER 769

1536 POTTER NICHOLAS EME CARTER 1537

3072 POTTER ROBERT ELIZABETH MARSHALL 3073

6144 POTTER THOMAS ISOBEL SUMNER 6145

12288 POTTER NICHOLAS AGNES ?? 24576



ADDITIIONAL INFORMATION ON OUR POTTER LINEAGE #3

POTTER IS DEFINITELY AN OCCUPATIONAL TYPE NAME. THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF THE WORD WAS A BELL MAKER, BUT EVENTUALLY IT CAME TO MEAN A MAKER OF POTTERY. THERE ARE SEVERAL SPELLING VARIATIONS OF THE NAME BUT NO EVIDENCE THAT ANY OF OUR ANCESTORS EVER USED ANY VARIATION.

IT IS NOT CERTAIN WHERE OUR POTTER LINEAGE ORIGINATED. FAMILY TRADITION SAYS THAT THIS FAMILY WAS OF FLEMISH EXTRACTION. BUT THE ONLY RECORDS OUTSIDE THE U.S. WERE IN NEWPORT-PAGNELL, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ,.ENG.

IN ADDITION TO BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, A POSSBLE ORIGIN IS DEVONSHIRE. THERE WAS A POTTER FAMILY AT IDDESLEIGH, NORTH DEVONSHIRE IN 1620. THERE WAS A DR. BARNABAS POTTER, BISHOP OF CARLISLE IN 1628 WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY OF DEVONSHIRE. THERE WAS ALSO A POTTER FAMILY AT WESTERHAM,KENT, ENGLAND

i would like to correspond with anyone about any of the surnames listed.