Interesting . My last name is spelled Poteet & my nuclear family is from Tennessee/Georgia. I always thought the name was French Huguenot & the Poteet’s escaped persecution from King Louis XIV the Sun King and landed in the Carolinas . In the 80s I bought one of those kiosk researches at the mall & it said name Latin and of occupational origin . Wherever it came from I am convinced the name Poteet is of the Romance languages & not Germanic or Celtic . Whether it is Italian and not French needs more research . If there was a Giovanni I can see him Anglicizing his name . Many people who came here did . Latest thing I have come across is a young man doing a web page for his daughter & going into & claiming Italian Ancestry but claimed Giovanni was from Venice. Also I wonder if this Giovanni Patitte , Patitto whatever was Catholic or Protestant and if there are any Church records . I grew up Methodist but my Grandfather was Presbyterian which of course is not Catholic but not Huguenot/Calvinist either. Anyway Au Revoir or Ciao for now .
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