Vautrin Family History

Some characteristic forenames: French Franck, Lydie, Normand.

French (mainly Lorraine): from a pet form of the personal name Vautier ‘Walter’. Compare Votra and Wotring .

History: This surname is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (along with its altered form Wotring) and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America. The Huguenot ancestor was Abraham Vautrin, Jr (also Wautrin) from Lorraine, France, whose descendants bear the surnames Wotring , Watring, and Woodring. — The progenitor of the American bearers of the surname Vautrin was Charles Vautrin, a soldier from France, who was in QC by 1760, when he married Marie-Catherine Boire. His descendants also bear the surnames such as Votra .