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date: 14 December 2024

Dutch Family Names 

Source:
Dictionary of American Family Names
Author(s):
Leendert BrouwerLeendert Brouwer, Peter McClurePeter McClure, Charles GehringCharles Gehring

This essay is concerned mainly with surnames created in the Netherlands and Flemish Belgium in the Dutch language, and with surnames that are considered to be hybrids of Dutch and Frisian. It will conclude by looking at the onomastic impact of Dutch colonialization in North America, and of later migration by Dutch speakers to the US. The first and last sections are based on the essay written by Charles Gehring for the first edition, with some small modifications, including some refinements of the linguistic description, for which thanks are due to Nicoline van der Sijs, Professor of Historical Dutch Linguistics at Radboud University, Nijmegen. The remaining sections of the essay are by Leendert Brouwer in collaboration with Peter McClure.... ...

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