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[Surname] Re: Origin of Surname Bockholdt
by Andy ;—) (guest)
12/19/2005, 10:48 PM
in reply to a message by Judy Sul
Bockholdt is German indeed. It's from various place-names like Bockholt in Lower Saxony and it originally means "beech-forest" (Buchenwald).
This is taken from:Rosa und Volker Kohlheim, Familiennamen, Mannheim 2000
Dieter Berger, Geographische Namen in Deutschland, Mannheim 1999
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Origin of Surname Bockholdt  ·  Judy Sul  ·  12/19/2005, 4:12 PM
•Re: Origin of Surname Bockholdt  ·  Andy ;—)  ·  12/19/2005, 10:48 PM