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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Subject: Re: German Surnames
- Organization: CompuData Inc.
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:40:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.164019.15738@compu.com>
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- jungschj@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes:
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- >In later times Meier and all its spelling variations became the title of a
- >farm bailiff or manager of a good-sized farm, usually owned by some nobility
- >who could obviously not be bothered with the day to day running of their
- >possessions. This also applies to farms held by the churches.
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- This seems to be the concensus then. It explains the often used name: 'meyer zu
- place', or the manager of x. It is easy to see how this could have become
- hereditary and that the name had some kind of 'uppity' wring to it which
- people would want to keep. Meyer, Mueller & Schmidt seem to be the most common
- names in Germany.
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- fred
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