[Surname] Re: Stallings or Slusher
by Jim Young (guest)
2/25/2007, 11:48 AM
Stallings could be German but I think it's Dutch. Certainly without the -s ending it's a Dutch surname. Stalling is Dutch for "stables", it might be a place name or a metonymic for someone who worked at stables. The German for stables is Stallungen, not quite so close. Mainly guesswork, remember.
Slusher, according to the ancestry.com website is an American version of the Polish Sluszarz, "locksmith". Was that your information? The first S has a little mark over it and is pronounced like SH. So is the SZ but they're not quite the same when pronounced properly. My advice, don't try, especially with that RZ, it's a killer.