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[Facts] Oebele
This is another name that crops up regularly in my Frisian genealogy. It is also a male name. Any other information would be greatly appreciated.
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I found the time to look up Oebele in Tammena, Namengebung in Ostfriesland, and he explains this name as a simplified form of Odbald. It is related to the names like Obbe or Obbo and can also be found under this Lemma in Seibicke, Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch.
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Thanks for the information. Another genealogy mystery solved!
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I can only think a Frisian form of Abel, or a diminutive of Ebbe (an old abbreviation of Norse Asbjorn, with umlaut of A to E, that also appears in Old English).

This message was edited 5/18/2019, 9:30 AM

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