Hello Bryan,
I have study the map from 1836 and the book "Die Bauernhöfe im Amte Vechta". I have a new idea now:
The father that I mentioned in my previous note, Joan Bernd SCHRÖDER, was
actually born as Johann Bernard BORMENKEN-SCHRÖDER in 1745. His parents
were
Johann Heinrich SCHRÖDER and Catharina Adelheid BORMENKE STRIEKER.
This tells me that there must have been a BORMENKE farm that Catharina
inherited, and Johann took its name. Also, either Catharina's father was
BORMENKE-STRIEKER, or he was just STRIEKER and her mother was BORMENKE.
In the Bauernschaft Borringhausen (part of Damme) I can see farmhouses of Stricker and Schröder (Kotten).
At the next corner in Rottinghausen lived a Menke (since 1870 Trimpe).
It could be, that Bormenke is a short form for Bor(ringhausen)-Menke or Menke of Borringhausen, which came from Rottinghausen. Only an idea.
Bormenke ist not a realname.
The book say also, the name Menke came from the firstname Meinhard.
Werner mentioned "olle Borg" referring to the Dersaburg castle. I assume
that is Plattdütsch for "alte Burg"? Does "Borg" in Borg(e)menke,
Borg(e)mann, etc, then come from "Burg"? Does "Landerhöhung" also mean
castle or is it more like an estate? Ans is "Menke" the same as "Mann" in
this case?
Yes, Plattdütsch: olle Borg, Hochdeutsch: alte Burg, english: old castle
The Borgmann come not from the "Burg", he lives near the "Dersa-Burg" (real castle), a little hill today.
Werner