Creole peoples were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations (or free men and women of color). They were also referred to as "criollos", a word from the Spanish language meaning "created" and used in the post-French governance period to distinguish the two groups of New Orleans area and down river Creoles. Both mixed race and European Creole groups share many traditions and language, but their socio-economic roots differed in the original period of Louisiana history. Actually, the French word Creole is derived from the Portuguese word "Crioulo", which described Spaniards born in the Americas as opposed to Spain.
Kutsche Afrikaans Coetzee. The related German term "Kutscher" refers to someone who drives a coach, "viz.", a coachman; however, according to Hans Bahlow, it can also be a Germanized name, "Kutscher(a)", derived from the Czech Kučera, meaning "curly." People with variants of the surname with either etymology include: Kutsche Kutsche (), with numerous other spellings, is a German surname with several etymologies, including one Hungarian and several Slavic. According to the onomast Hans Bahlow, the name "Kutsche"/"Kutscha" with different spellings, when found in the historical east (central) German linguistic area (such as Saxony, Bohemia and Silesia), is "clearly of Slavic origin,