oldenburg-l - Nachricht 2008-03 00028

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In a message dated 13/03/2008 7:09:03 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
oldenburg-l-request(a)genealogy.net writes:

I found  the following entry in a church book:  

Parentes Herman Heggeman  dictus Vosk?hler  Elisabeth Vosk?hler  

Parents: Herman  Heggeman known as Vosk?hler and Elizabeth Vosk?hler  

The marriage  record does not contain the word 'dictus'.   It appears in two  
of the baptism records, but not all of them.  The  same priest  wrote all 
entries.   I saw similar entries in the book for   other Fathers.



"Dictus" is Latin for "called" or "said to be." By  the time of the baptism 
the father had become known by the wife's last name  because she was the heir 
to the property they lived on. Sometimes it took more  than one generation to 
make the name stick to all the family, so for a while  both names may be found 
for the children's last names, but not  consistently.
    The wife may be heir because she was the oldest  daughter and there 
weren't any surviving sons, or because she married the heir  to the property. (It 
may not be her maiden name.)
    Also a man may be "dictus" something other than his  father's name simply 
because he acquired an estate with a different name, by  other means than 
marriage.
     In the above case the woman carried the estate  name.
Nancy Pundsack