[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Anybody ever see the surname Ratt? Taron

[Joanne Johnson]

My cousin Otto Rimer (son of  Edward Rimer from Volhynia, 1910) who lives in 
Argentina is married to Lydia Taron. Her heritage is GERMAN!
Her grandparents spoke German.

Joanne Redmann Johnson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Günther Böhm" <GHBoehm at ish.de>
To: "GPV List" <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Anybody ever see the surname Ratt? Taron


> Otto schrieb:
>
>>Ratt/Radt (wheel) could well be a shortened form of Rattke/Radtke
>>(little wheel or offspring of wheel)
>>
> Hello Karl & Otto,
> RATT would primarily sound like RAT [RATH] which stands for an urban,
> feudal or royal councillor.
> 'Rad' would more likely occur in craftsmen's names like RADEMACHER,
> RADKE more likely stem from the slavian first name Radek [Radko] as its
> diminutive [from 'rad' = happy].
>
>>Taron/Tarrun remains a challenge.
>>
> Here I am at first tempted to think of the medieval town of Thorn
> [Toruń] -  B U T  the surname TARON is not uncommon in France. There it
> seems to originate from the present département Marne where several
> TARON lived in Châlons, La-Neuville-Au-Pont,  Sainte-Menehould and Vroil
> in 17th and 18th century as well as the present département
> Meurthe-et-Moselle (Saulxures-Lès-Nancy, starting from early 17th
> century as well).
>
> Günther
>
>
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