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

[Jurgen]

just wondering, were these actually Huegonots or were they Waldenser or were 
they a mixture of the two ?
Waldensers followed the teachings of Peter Waldes (Waldo), and were a 
separate Protestant Sect,
the Waldensers settled in Italy and Germany after fleeing eastern France in 
the late 1600s,
i have a grandmother who was a full-blooded Waldenser, and who was one of 
the first of her village (Serres) to marry a German
see ya
jurgen


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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>
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> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Anybody ever see the surname Ratt? 
> Taron
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> 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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