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Variants, Trottman, Trotter, Trottier. An occupational
name, 'the trotter' i.e. a messenger, one who trotted back and forth with
messages. This name is of English descent and is found in many ancient
manuscripts in the above country. Examples of such are a Throgmorton
Trotman, of Co.Gloucestershire, who was recorded in 'Rudder's Histories
Gloucestershire' in 1663 and a Richard White and Mary Trotman were married
at the church of St.George, Hanover Square, in the year 1783. Names were
recorded in these ancient documents to make it easier for their overlords to
collect taxes and to keep records of the population at any given time. When
the overlords acquired lands by either force or gifts from their rulers,
they created charters of ownership for themselves and their vassals. Other
examples of this name were found in the person of a Johannes Trotter who was
recorded in the 'Poll Tax' of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the year
1379. |
