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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Settelmeier : North German (Oldenburg; Settelmeier): distinguishing nickname for the tenant farmer (see Meyer) of a principal farm or estate (Middle Low German sadel(hof)).
  • Americanized form of German Settelmeier : distinguishing nickname for the tenant farmer (see Meyer) of an estate that was required to furnish a saddled horse (Middle High German satel, sadel ‘saddle’) in time of war.

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