[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Havicus

[Joe Pessarra]

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> I am trying to locate information about my father's Grandfather who was
> Clemons Havicus (Havercriste) (?) who was born in German in 1804.  We do
not have
> any idea where he was born nor do we have any ideas about how to find any
> information on our family.  I am hoping that someone can help.
>
> Marlene Havicus James
>
>

See below a previous post on this name, Havicus, in Ger-Poland-Volhynia
group in 2002. l Do an Internet lookup on Havicus, and you will get 123
hits, some of which, like this one, might be of some help.

Joe in Texas

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Hello Judy, Rose & Gerald,
HAVICUS is definitely an attempted latinization of the Lower Saxonian
HAVEK or Netherlands HAVIK, which means in high German Habicht, in
English hawk (the bird of prey). Several variants of the name arise in
Westphalian (Soest) evangelic parish registers in late 17th, in the
Netherlands (Haarlem) in early 17th and in Lower Saxony (Hildesheim) in
11th century. Though there are also some events of HAVEK in Bohemia
(diminutive form of the Czech name HAVIL [see Czech president]), the
events in Lower Saxony are uncomparingly more numerous.

In short story of the name origin of the knight's castle of HABIGHORST
near Eschede, district of Celle, Ludwig Ohlendorf writes in his book
"The Lower Saxonian Patriciate and its Origin", Hannover and Leipzig
1910: "A certain Conradus ACCIPITER (accipiter Latin = hawk, in Lower
Saxonian HAVEK) leads a number of ministeriales of St. Michael in
Hildesheim. Yet before 1093 he is called HEVECO, after 1093 Conrad HAVEK."

The genesis of the German name Habicht:
Old High German = habuh
Middle High German = habech, habich
Old Saxonian = habuk
Middle Lower German = haavek
Middle Netherlands = haavik
Netherlands = havik

Guenther
from Hilden, Germany
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