"Bob Doerr" <bdoerr@msm.umr.edu> schrieb:
Hallo
Please, where would the family Wallhermfechtel probably have originated?
I find none in the German phone book.
Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks
Very unusual name indeed. I would favourize the following word history:
the name of a Walter Hermann Fechtel was contracted to Walthermfechtel because of abbrevation of Walter = Walt and Hermann = Herm. Otherwise the name sounds like modern woman names connecting two family names or as one single family name to German ears a bit complicated structured like Indian names in the literature, for example as "The-bear-that-looks-around-the corner". In the end nothing is impossible and you will be lucky to find that name back in Germany. Meanwhile I would try to get a connection to a FECHTEL family, because this name is an existing name with about 100 different families and entries in the telephone directory.If the first two syllable should be also a family name of its own, there are different possibilities in WALDHEIM, WALDHERR, WALLHERR etc.
Good luck
Hans Peter Albers, Bienenbüttel