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Subject: Re: surname meaning, origin, etc.
Author: Andy ;—)   (guest, 84.165.67.170)
Date: December 14, 2005 at 10:13:12 PM
Reply to: surname meaning, origin, etc. by Takara
For LAURICH check this:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/SurnamePage.aspx?sourcecode=13304&html=b&fn=&ln=Laurich&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
(LAURENTIUS)

Now REINEN could well be German. Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Familiennamen, Mannheim 2000, has:
1. From REINO, a personal name going back to ragin/regin (like Reinhard, Reinold)
2. From German "rein" = "pure" (i.e. spotless, handsome, perfect, good, chaste)
3. Someone living by or coming from the river Rhine.
4. Someone living by a "Rain", i.e. a balk.

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