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Re: surname Tramer
"Tram" is an old-fashioned word for "beam" in German. So a "Tramer" would have been a carpenter, although I can't find "Tramer" in any dictionary, neither in Grimm's Wörterbuch nor in my 1935 20-volume Brockhaus.
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