RE: Meyer

Klaus (Stahl),

From your message below I see that you are living in the Westphalia

area. Where exactly is it that you are from. I'm looking for someone who
can help me look up some information in Solingen/Wuppertal. My
gr.grandfather, Carl Max Ruppert moved from there to South Africa,
together with his wife Amalie (nee Holzgen), circa 1900. Do you know
anyone in the area of Solingen/Wuppertal?

Max Ruppert (Max)

Max,

      The LDS has Solingen and Wuppertal listed as being in Rheinland. I
don't know the history of that area--it appears that these towns used to be
in Rheinland. At any rate, there are these church records:
   
Kirchenbuch, 1655-1810 Evangelische Kirche Solingen (StKr. Solingen)
Kirchenbuch, 1659-1809 Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Solingen (StKr.
Solingen)
Kirchenbuch, 1752-1809 Katholische Kirche Solingen (StKr. Solingen)
Kirchenbuch, 1810-1881 Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Wald (Kr. Solingen)

Barbara

Dear Listies,

About the name Meyer....

With so many Meye's in the world...I don't think possible that all Meyers/Meiers could have been farm managers??? Do you?

Is my thinking that perhaps many Meyer-??? or ???-meiers may have taken the name Meyer once in America ... perhaps intent on keepoing up with the Jonses?

To impart importance?

Perhaps like some polish people did in name spelling...substitute ski for sky...Ssomething I read. anyway...ska usually desinates female version of a name.

Supposedly a line of Meyer/Meyers in my family were originally Meyerpeter/Meierpeter or Meyerpeter. My thought is that my Meyerpeter would have been laborers rather than delegating labor.

More Gibberish..

Barbie-Lew
St. Louis

"Cactus Flower" <barbie8674@hotmail.com> schrieb:

Dear Listies,

About the name Meyer....

With so many Meye's in the world...I don't think possible that all
Meyers/Meiers could have been farm managers??? Do you?

Hello Barbie,

Yes, I do so. Not all Meyers/Meiers and so on, but one of their forefathers at the time when the last names were given and fixed was a farmer (owner or leaseholder). At that time most people were farmers, and consider that a farm in Germany is not like a farm in America, they were quite smaller. So, for example, in a little town (village) in the Hannover area with about 340 inhabitants, in 1689 there exist about 50 farms. According to the different surface they were divided in different classes: Vollmeier, Halbmeiet, Grosskötner, Kleinkötner.

However, nowadays Meyer with it different spellings is the third frequently last name in Germany.

Regards

Wilfried (Petersen)

Hello Wilfried,

     I'm curious--what are the first two most frequent names?
    
     You are always so knowledgeable about these historical things that we
deal with in genealogy research. I want to thank you for your contribution.

Barbara

Hi Barbie,
    Also consider that the German farms could not be legally subdivided after
some point in the Middle Ages so when a man died, only one of his children
could inherit the farm [or the lease on the farm to be more nearly correct].
Any other children [and there were usually quite a few] were basicly "tossed
out on their ear", but after some point in history they continued to use their
father's surname.
Don Roddy

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"R&B Stewart" <raybarbara@comcast.net> schrieb:

Hello Wilfried,

     I'm curious--what are the first two most frequent names?
    
     You are always so knowledgeable about these historical things that we
deal with in genealogy research. I want to thank you for your contribution.

Barbara

Hello Barbara,

the first two are:
1. Müller, Mueller etc. (= Miller),
2. Schmidt, Schmitt, Schmid etc. (= Smith).
They all come as Meyer from an occupation, profession.

Wilfried (Petersen)