Origin of Inge

Name History and Origin for Inge
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Total Records: 29

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Origin: Maker of bells and swords
Surnames: Clingman, Klingaman, Klingeman, Klingman
Submitted by: Annette Klingman

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Origin: Origin of surname is believed to be man from Tyrol or Tyroliger. As the language changed this became Trollinger. Some anecdotal evidence can be found in the wine grape known as Trollinger which produces a wine similar in taste to a chianti. The ealy church books in Ellmendingen, beginning 1618 have the spelling as Drollinger.
Surnames: Drollinger
Submitted by: Gordon L. Drollinger

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Origin: Origin of surname GSCHNEIDINGER / GSCHNAIDINGER%0a%0a%0a%0a1) derivation from the village Gneiding (=near the villages Otzing and Kleinweichs near Plattling, Niederbayern - Lower Bavaria - where the Gschnaidinger / Gschneidinger branch can be found in the 18th century)%0a%0a%0a%0a2) derivation from either the villages Gschnaid or Gschnaidt.
Surnames: Gschnaidinger, Gschneidinger
Submitted by: Max Gschneidinger

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Origin: The German family name Hassinger is classified as being of personal name origin. When a name is de-rived from a personal name, it is usually the name of the bearer's father or mother which is adopted and trans-formed into a fixed hereditary family name. This name is then proudly transmitted from generation to generation. The family name Hassinger developed from 'Hasso', a pet form of several old Germanic personal names.
Surnames: Hasinger, Hasser, Hassig, Hassing, Hassinger
Submitted by: William A. Hasinger

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Origin: Earliest records reveal that in 1273 Michael de Gingedale held tenure of land owned by monks of Glastonbury, Somerset that remained in the family until 1664. During this five century period members of the family moved, via the Manor of Garsdon, to Wiltshire and neighbouring counties. Some variation in the spelling of the name occurred, but by the early 17th Century Gingdale, Gyngel, Gyngle and ultimately Gingell were names closely connected with districts where the majority of the family where landowners, farmers and yeomen. Many were Quakers. Kathleen Broughton Gingell
Surnames: Gangell, Gingall, Gingell, Gyngell
Submitted by: Craig Gingell

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Origin: Am told Goetz was the German name and inger was an American additive, although I haven't proved it yet. Grandparents changed their name after married to Getzinger from Goetzinger.
Surnames: Getzinger, Goetzinger
Submitted by: Betty Bryan

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Origin: Place of origin: Pfungstadt, (Hessen), Germany
Surnames: Kleppinger, Kloppinger,Clippinger,Klepinger
Submitted by: Kenneth Kleppinger, Sr.

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Origin: I am studying all instances of the name Deighan. I have listed all references to the name in Ireland, Scotland and England in the Indexes to births deaths and marriages (90%25) completed. I have contacted a majority of Deighans now living and recorded their trees and together with the information I have gathered over 20 years have linked together as many small trees as I can. I will gladly share all information with anyone. All help, comments or queries welcomed.
Surnames: Heninger
Submitted by: Alan Deighan

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Origin: Researching ALL Pensingers beginning with Barthelme (1733 - ?), son Henry; his 11 children and their families. Several Pensinger researchers began a email Research Group mid-April 2001. Send a message to me <siegrist@lisco.com> or <siegrist_family@yahoo.com> to join us.
Surnames: Pensinger
Submitted by: Cindy Siegrist

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Origin: We have the complete geneology for the Van Harlingen of the John Martin Van Harlingen line. He was born in Burlington, N.J. and migrated to Lebanon, Ohio in 1817. He was a medical doctor there until he died at age 93.
Surnames: Van Harlingen
Submitted by: Victoria V. H. Tappy

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Origin: i am looking for any information on Lucy Ballinger who married Erasmus Allen in Garrard Co. Ky. on June 24, 1800. Had a son William
Surnames: Ballinger
Submitted by: Patricia Thompaon

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Origin: Catherine, born in Bitche, France in late 1800's. Married Frannz Tressel from Vienna Austria, had 4 children
Surnames: Obringer
Submitted by: geri

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Origin: Concentrated mainly in the Netherlands and recently in Canada
Surnames: Slingerland
Submitted by: Greg

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Origin: Wingerter, Peter b abt 1863 Pennsylnvania. Also, Wingerters in Michigan and New York from Peter's descendants. His children were Lillie, Stephen, Ralph Joseph, Vera M.; Thelma, Arthur, William. Born from 1884 to 1909. By two marriages, 1st to Mary Delpierre, 2nd to Augusta. Looking for Peter's parents, and where in France/Germany they were from.
Surnames: Wingerter
Submitted by: Michele

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Origin: Moses 1898 y.b., Sambor, his fater's name Pinkas, studied in Paris & Berlin, was in fisrt settlement in Palestina, later leaved in USSR, was dead 1943 Stalingrad Battle, had brother Leo (Arko(?)) and sister Lia. Now his son Edward Grininger lived in Mariupol, Ukraine. He is a deep sea Captain. His grandsone Konstantin Grininger also Captain. His grandaughter Helen teacher of English. Lokking for our probably rerlatives for contacts & interest
Surnames: Grininger
Submitted by: Captain K. Grininger

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Origin: history, religion, original country, where we emigrated to, earliest date it shows in archives
Surnames: Messinger
Submitted by: Michaela

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Origin: Knute - spouse Gunvor Scarvey, Thora Solveig - children Alec, Helen, Oscar, Clarence, Della and Ruth
Surnames: Vinge
Submitted by: Liz

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Origin: The earliest discovery made by Dr. Donald O. Wissinger relating to the origin of the Wissinger surname spelling was found on old Roman maps of about the year A.D. 350; an area along the Danube river in southern Europe designated at the "ing" or "ingen" area. This area along the Danube river was later termed Swabia or Suabia (German-Schwaben; Latin - Suevia), a medieval duchy in southern Europe. It took its name from the Suevi, by which the Germanic people of the Alamanni who occupied southern Europe in the 3rd century were also known. The total region occupied later by the Alamanni embraced western Bavaria, W?rttemberg, Baden, Alsace and a great part of Switzerland. In the 3rd century the Alamanni was a confederacy of Germanic tribes inhabiting the region (Alamania) between the Main and the Danube Rivers. The so-called Germanic tribes originated as the western movement of people occurred from the east. Their earliest forefathers probably descended from Japheth, the youngest of the three sons of Noah. Japheths's sons are named in Genesis 10:2; and their names prove to be those of Indo-European peoples inhabiting western Asia and parts of Europe in early Old Testament times (2349 B.C. - 2218 B.C.). One of Japheth's sons was Gomer. The descendants of Gomer's eldest son, Ashkenaz (Ashchenaz), seem to have been the Scythians, who, according to Jeremiah 51:27, lived in the vicinity of Mount Ararat (today's eastern Turkey). The tribes may have pushed on into Europe. In later Jewish literature the name Ashkenaz denotes the Germanic people. Also, according to history, another of the sons of Japheth was Tiras, whose descendents very likely became the Thracians of southern Europe. Almost every German historian makes German history begin with inroad into the Roman orbit of the Cimbri and Teutones (112 B.C.). The history of any Germanic tribe which at one time or another settled within the boundaries of present Germany is considered part and parcel of German history, without further questioning. Dr. Steinberg in his Short History of Germany writes, "The outstanding fact in the history of Germany is the non-existence, up to 1871, of any political unit called Germany."

From University Professor, Dr. A. Helbok, of Innsbruck, Austria, by historical settlement studies, writes, "One has the spreading of the place name of "ing(en)" to many places in connection with the establishment of Bavaria." Dr. Helbok concluded that "ing(en)" people first settled in what is now Austria, and gradually extended west. Many "ing(en)" villages were established.

From studies made at Bavaria the conclusion has been made that for Wisingen, so named, means descendant of Wiso; and that the prefixes Wis, Wiz, and Weise, are of the same origin. Wiso was probably the name of a tribal chief. Even today there exists near Augsburg the towns of Dillingen and Lauingen; near Stuttgart there is Esslingen, Geislingen and several additional "ingen" towns between Stuttgart and Ulm. North of Munich is Freising. In Switzerland near Basil is Sackingen. We also find the information "almost 30 kilometers west southwest from Weisingen, that for centuries lay next to Augsburg, lies an all Protestant area, a second Weisingen." From the Metropolitan Archives, Munich, we find recorded a document, a Will, of 28 Jan 1313 from the small Cloister of Dillengen (an extract of the original) which begins, "I Geerlach von Wissingen - - - -," and in the content of the same document reference is made to the house of Wysingen. In the Augsburg tax books in the year 1408, we find Frau Johann Wizzinger entered; her family "von Wissingen" had wandered away; but appear again with the recording of gold-smith, Wolfgang Wissinger, in Augsburg. However, at Augsburg, a line of Wolfgang Wisinger gold-smiths (1347 - 1565) is attested to by their grave markers.

It seems quite conclusive that the surname origins of the ancestors living in the "ing(en)" areas first named their villages "ingen" with a chosen prefix, a given name or other choice. These villages, for our family genealogical purposes, became the origin for our surname Wissinger with variations in surname spelling. Family members from the respective villages were identified by given names and as being from (von) a certain village; i.e., Gerlock von Wisingen. Later the German "von" meaning "from" was dropped, in some families, and the surname ending became "er" for "en." There exists a marked variation in surname spelling over the centuries, and continues today within the same family lines. In old documents and records in the "ingen" areas one finds the surnames Weisingen, Wisingen, Wysingen, Wizzingen, Wissingen, Weissinger, Weisiger, Weisinger, Weising, Wising, and others. When one considers the historical custom of the early period, that the ability to read and write was frowned upon as beneath the dignity of the upper classes; while few of the lower classes had an opportunity to learn to read and write, it seems quite probable that phonetics came into play, surnames were spelled and written as they sounded to the one who had to write the surname on some document. Not so long ago many of our ancestors signed legal documents with their mark an "X" which was duly witnessed.
Surnames: WISSINGER
Submitted by: Bob Wissinger

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Origin: The Patriarch of the Ensminger family was Hans Gerber of Insming, and was called Hans Gerber the Insminger, as in, a person from New York is commonly called a New Yorker. His son Peter was the first generation to go by the last name of Ensmiinger.
The name ENSMIINGER came from the village of Insming, Mosel, Lothringen, Deutschland (now France): The commune of Insming still exists today in Lorraine, Moselle, France. Cut and paste this to see Insming , http://www.chez.com/haras57/page2.html
Einsming in the past times, Ensminger today.
The story tells that the family were living there until about 1550, they had to leave their homeland , because they became protestant and were persecuted by catholic armies.
When they reached Diemeringen, about 20 miles east from Insming, they met alot of protestants who welcomed them warmly. They decided to settle there, and were called Eisnminger, that is meaning "those coming from Insming in German. That is the reason why their name was first written Einsminger or Ensmiinger.
The challenge now is : what was their previous name ! Some say that it was Gerber, meaning a tanner by trade.
Surnames: Ensminger
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Origin: eicheldinger
Surnames: eicheldinger, waltman
Submitted by: patty

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Origin: I read at 1 time that 'Ingersoll' means from the Monk' s land. This should be confirmed though.
Surnames: Ingersoll
Submitted by: bill

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Origin: Godden - either from the Earl of Wessex Godwine, father of King Harold or deriviative of anglo saxon words Goda & Den Goat Enclosure meaning someone that breed/kept goats.
Surnames: Furminger
Submitted by: Adrian

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Origin: A "STRINGER" was the person who fashioned and attached the string for making bows. Other names related to bow and arrow making or use: Bowman, Archer, Fletcher, Arrowsmith.
Surnames: Stringer
Submitted by: Bob Britnell

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Origin: The real spelling of this name is Newinger. The name is of German origin. When they came to American they were pronouncing it incorrectly. W in Gwemwn is the sound of V, so to have people pronounce the name correctly they changed the spelling to Nevinger.
Surnames: Newinger, Nevinger
Submitted by: Carol Joy "Newinger" Penna

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Origin: German (Barvaria vic Weissenburg) Someone from Holzing. Variations are Holzinger, Holzing, Holtzinger, Holzingen, and Holsinger. Common throughout South Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Alsace.
Surnames: Holsinger
Submitted by: Janaburg

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Origin: austria
Surnames: steininger
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Origin: DASINGER
Surnames: DASINGER
Submitted by:

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Origin: Ingersoll
English: habitational name from Inkersall in Derbyshire, recorded in the 13th century as Hinkershil(l) and Hinkreshill. The final element is Old English hyll 'hill'. The first may be the Old Norse personal name Ingvarr or an Old English byname Hynkere meaning 'limper'. Ekwall suggests that it may represent a contracted version of Old English higna ?cer 'monks' field'.
Dictionary of American Family Names,
Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Surnames: Ingersoll, Ingerson
Submitted by: Rick D Ingersoll

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Origin: Pullinger or Bullinger from the ancient French Boulanger or baker.
Surnames: Pullinger
Submitted by: Mark Pullinger