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

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In 1803 several families emigrated from the Huegonot village of Pinache in Wuerttemberg to the East.  We don't know where they went, but this is an example of families with Huegonot ancestry migrating further east.  I agree that this scenario is very plausible for the Taron family name.  Take care,

    -Paul







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From: Karl Krueger <dabookk54 at yahoo.com>
To: GPV List <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 6:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Anybody ever see the surname Ratt? Taron



To qualify a little more on the supposed French origins of the name Taron I have 
ommunicated with some related Tarons in Germany. One of their grandfathers 
upposedly did some research into their history, although I don't where he would 
ave back tracked much of this since he would almost certainly not have had 
ccess to the church records in Lublin which are only recently starting to open 
p. 
The story goes that the Tarons who eventually moved to Michelsdorf, Lublin, 
oland by the 1830s were derived from French Huegenots back in the 1600s who 
led France because of the persecution. They ended up near Hannover and mixed 
ith the Lutherans. Obviously the male line carried through the generations. 
ver the next 150-200 years some of these descendants, now fully Germanized with 
 French name were among the Germans migrating east in Europe. I have no solid 
vidence to back up this story but it sounds very plausible to me. As Guenther 
aid, Taron is a very French name and we find other cases of French names among 
ur Lutherans in eastern Europe. I find this possibility easier to swallow than 
thers coming from different parts of Europe.
Günther Böhm <GHBoehm at ish.de> wrote: Otto schrieb:
>Ratt/Radt (wheel) could well be a shortened form of Rattke/Radtke  
(little wheel or offspring of wheel)

ello Karl & Otto,
ATT would primarily sound like RAT [RATH] which stands for an urban, 
eudal or royal councillor.
Rad' would more likely occur in craftsmen's names like RADEMACHER,
ADKE more likely stem from the slavian first name Radek [Radko] as its 
iminutive [from 'rad' = happy].
>Taron/Tarrun remains a challenge.

ere 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 
eems to originate from the present département Marne where several 
ARON lived in Châlons, La-Neuville-Au-Pont,  Sainte-Menehould and Vroil 
n 17th and 18th century as well as the present département 
eurthe-et-Moselle (Saulxures-Lès-Nancy, starting from early 17th 
entury as well).
Günther

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