Message: "Origin of Walpeter"

Origin of Walpeter

by krysia

7/13/2007, 1:31 AM

Hi Can any one help, please. I am doing my family tree, Walpeter is my family name my father came from Daugaupils Poland born 1924. I have come to stop on tracing my family before 1850 please can anyone advise. I have heard that Walpeter is German decent. many thanks

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- Sean Foglai (guest) +2

7/15/2007, 2:30 PM

Since you haven't gotten another reply, I thought I'd take an educated guess ...

It's best if separate the syllables.and check in German. It is definitely been Americanized so you'll likley have to live with a best guess.

Wal- in German can mean a few things. Yes, it can be a wall like we have in English, but it can also mean a representative, such as a lawyer or an advocate. That makes sense.

Wal- is also often a root in many words that mean foreigner such as we find in Wales, Welch, Walsh and Wallach ...sort of "beyond the wall" if you will ...

-peter in almost all senses, unless there is some soundex mistake, would mean earth, land, ground, property, etc.

So take this where you will ...it's never a perfect science ...

Peter

- krysia +1

7/17/2007, 7:20 AM

Thank you for that information... it all helps, now just need to find a few more people with the same name..

thanks again

- Sean Foglai (guest)

7/19/2007, 2:02 AM

In searching on genealogy sites, I'd use the soundex option which will pull names that sound like or are close proximities to your name ...As I mentioned, it most likely change when it came to America ...

Good luck!

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