Last name: FORTNER
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FORTNER : This last name is indexed 15,592 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
FORTNER : German: variant (also Förtner) or Americanized form of Pförtner an occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city or the doorkeeper in a great house castle or monastery Middle High German phortenaere (from Latin porta ‘door gate’). Compare English Porter.
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