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Anyone have any ideas on OLLRE? Most records seem to indicate Bavaria,Germany, Switerland, some in France most settling in Texas ( Gonzales, Houston, some Louisiana) we have always wondered where our last name is from...has been a mystery! Any help would be great!
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This webpage -
http://static.namesdatabase.com/names2/O/E/Oeller.html
gives some misspellings (and variants?) of the German surname Oeller, which, I imagine, has something to do with oil; a vendor of olive oil perhaps, or an extractor of vegetable oil.
There is also a dialect word, Oellre, which appears to be cognate with the standard German elter (elder?). Perhaps someone with a good knowledge of the language could help you with this.
http://static.namesdatabase.com/names2/O/E/Oeller.html
gives some misspellings (and variants?) of the German surname Oeller, which, I imagine, has something to do with oil; a vendor of olive oil perhaps, or an extractor of vegetable oil.
There is also a dialect word, Oellre, which appears to be cognate with the standard German elter (elder?). Perhaps someone with a good knowledge of the language could help you with this.
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