[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Fuhl variants; was Re: Schmidtke of Chelm

[Helen Gillespie]

And possibility of the anglicization to Filman and Fillman.....

and Schmittke-  without the "d"...

It beggars the imagination.....


Helen

--- On Sun, 4/17/11, Jerry Frank <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca> wrote:

> From: Jerry Frank <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Fuhl variants;  was Re:  Schmidtke of Chelm
> To: "Reiner Kerp" <mail at reiner-kerp.de>
> Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 4:51 PM
> Though we are straying from the
> original family question, this discussion about the names is
> quite interesting.  There was in fact a Füllmann family
> which lived at Rosenfeld, just 13 miles north of Gretna in
> Manitoba.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Reiner Kerp <mail at reiner-kerp.de>
> Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011 10:42 am
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Schmidtke of Chelm,
> Poland, Russia
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> 
> > Am 17.04.2011 17:24, schrieb shoning at q.com:
> > 
> > > I may be pointing out the obvious, but the Fuhl
> surname could 
> > also be "Fühl" (incidentally, the German word for
> "feel"), and 
> > depending upon what search engine you use or how you
> search for 
> > the name, you may not find "Fühl" when you are
> looking with 
> > "Fuhl".  Of course, "Fühl" could be anglicized as
> "Fuehl".
> > 
> > not to forget: in some cases part of names were cut
> off. Names as
> > Fillmann or Füllmann were common in areas like the
> Palatinate, where
> > many kolonists came from.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mit schönen Grüßen aus Landsberg am Lech,
> > 
> > Reiner (Kerp)
> > 
> > mailto:mail at reiner-kerp.de
> > 
> > im web: http://reiner-kerp.de
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