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"Dik T. Winter" <Dik.Winter@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:JB4Dxq.71v@xxxxxxxxx
> In article <WmZkh.93911$Fk1.489899@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "heliogabalus"
> <forbidden@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> ...
> > "Most Jews-I am confining myself to a specific area in or near
> > Swabia-did not have family names until they were mandated, in
> > Austria in
> > 1787, in Bavaria in 1813, and in other places around the turn of the
> > century.
>
> Strange enough, most Jews in the Netherlands had family names, while
> many Dutch did have not, until it was mandated. Here they were
> mandated under Napoleontic regime, and that has lead to quite a few
> pretty strange family names. Some simply due to ridicule with the new
> rule ("Naaktgeboren", i.e. "born naked"), others due to customs that
> did not fit with the new rule ("Vennegoor of Hesseling", "Olde
> Riekerink").
I see. "Most family names in the Netherlands date back to Napoleonic
times when people were required to adopt a fixed family name for
purposes of registering for conscription in Napoleon's army. Prior, they
might have just been Jansen (Johnson) with potential name changes each
generation. After Napoleon was booted out, the Dutch kings continued the
registry, to the distress of people wo had adopted "funny" names in the
assumption that Napoleon would not last. To this day there are people
with last names of the Dutch equivalent of born or Riceass."
http://www.languagehat.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=416
And: "In Dutch, patronymics were often used in place of surnames or as
middle names. Patronymics were composed of the father's name plus an
ending -zoon for sons, -dochter for daughters. For instance, Abel
Janszoon Tasman is "Abel son of Jan Tasman", and Kenau Simonsdochter
Hasselaer: "Kenau, daughter of Simon Hasselaer". In written form, these
endings were often abbreviated as -sz and -dr respectively eg. Jeroen
Cornelisz "Jeroen son of Cornelis". The endings -s, -se and -sen were
also commonly used for sons and often for daughters too. In the northern
provinces, -s was almost universally used for both sons and daughters.
Patronymics were common in the Dutch United Provinces until the French
invasion in 1795 and subsequent annexation in 1810. As the Netherlands
was now a province of France, a registry of births, deaths and marriages
was established in 1811, whereupon emperor Napoleon forced the Dutch to
register and adopt a distinct surname. Often, they simply made the
patronymic the new surname, and modern Dutch patronymic-based surnames
such as Jansen, Pietersen and Willemsen abound. (Others chose their
profession as surname: Bakker (baker), Slagter (butcher) etc. Still
others may have thought this "surname thing" was a passing fashion and
chose fantasy names such as Keizer (emperor) or even Naaktgeboren (born
naked).)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronymic">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronymic
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