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- 1 2 "Cottier Name Meaning and History". Ancestry.com . Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ↑ "Cotter Name Meaning and History". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
- ↑ Reaney, Percy Hilde; Wilson, Richard Middlewood (2006). A Dictionary of English Surnames (PDF) (3rd ed.). London: Routledge. p. 758. ISBN 0-203-99355-1.
- ↑ "Gauthier Name Meaning and History". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 12 April 2008.
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