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platte Name Meaning and History

  1. French: from Old French plat ‘flat’ (Late Latin plat(t)us, from Greek platys ‘broad’, ‘flat’).
  2. German: variant of Plate 1.
  3. German: topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle High German plate ‘plateau’, ‘rock wall’.

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platte Family Facts

Distribution of platte Families in the US in 1920
Number of platte families
 15-27
 6-14		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 6 - Messages: 16
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Mathilda Platte 1864-1922, Michigan, USA Steve Hillebrand 3
Richard Platte of Michigan, USA everinghamfamily 7
Lilliam Platte in Denton, TX 1918 drbrownlee 0
Fredrick Robert 'Fred' Platte, 1883-1964, Germany > USA, m. Fay E Rountree bkemm6775 0
Marie Emma Platte, married Martin Thomas Ingersoll ronda1304 0
Jane Platte in Southern Ohio, USA, 1872. Married John C. Pierce cherokee44833 0
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