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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an altered form of German Bartscher, South German Partscher, an occupational name for a barber, from Middle High German bart ‘beard’ + scher(er) ‘shearer’, ‘cropper’ (from scheren ‘to shear’).

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