[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] surnames: Boss, Hoffman (Rose Ingram)

[Günther Böhm]

Jerry Frank schrieb:
> I just wanted to point out that the Boss surname appears in the 
> Volhynian church records.  I am not suggesting that an association with 
> Busse or even Boese is not possible but it does not necessarily have to 
> be blamed on an immigration agent.
Hello Don and Jerry,
the origin of the German surnames BOSS, BOSCH, BOSSE, BOTZ, BÖTZ, BUSCH,
BUTSCH, BUTZ, BUSS, BUSSE and BUSKE is the same: a familiar form of the
given name Burkhard (Alemannic).
Derivates of BOSSE and BUSSE are the Alemannic surnames BOS(S)HAR(D)T,
BOSS(H)AR(D)T, BOSSARD, BOSSERT, BUSSHAR(D)T, BUSSERT
(see
http://lexikon.meyers.de/wissen/Burkhard+(Sachartikel)+Sprache%2C+Schriften
).

Günther