Total Records: 8
Origin of Orf, Meaning of Orf
Origin: Looking for Helldorfer's from Baltimore,MD. Came from Bavaria in the 1850's,1860's. One brother owned Helldorfer brewery in Highlandtown.
Surnames: Helldorfer
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Origin of Orf, Meaning of Orf
Origin: Korff/Corff/Corf has several meanings including the passage between hills, a border line above a stream or in a great hall, the Cornish bear, in Welsh a body either human or a committee or group, in ancient French the raven or raven black hair.
Surnames: Korff, Corff, Corf, Korf, Corfe
Submitted by: Nicholas Corff |
Origin of Orf, Meaning of Orf
Origin: A town in Hesse, Germany, signifying the old town; dorf, a town or village, the same as Oldendorf.
Surnames: Allendorf
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Origin of Orf, Meaning of Orf
Origin: Earliest US records for Biersdorff (pronounced with both long and short "i") are spelled Byersdorff, from Prussia. Biersdorff means Beer Village, but Byersdorff is not purely German which raises the possibility that the later "Bier" was a return to the original pre-immigration spelling.
Surnames: Biersdorff / Byersdorff
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Origin of Orf, Meaning of Orf
Origin: Norfleet is probable that the surname Norfleet, which does not appear in this form in the usual volumes showing the etymological derivation of names, is a combined form of the name Fleet, which originated in the Anglo-Saxon fleas, a harbor for vessels, or an arm of the sea, and Nor,
an abbreviated form of North. There are parishes in the dioceses of Lincoln, Salisbury and Winchester caned Fleet.
(Lower Patronymica Britannica. Bardsley: Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames.)
Surnames: Norfleet
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Origin of Orf, Meaning of Orf
Origin: Thomas Norfleet was most probably the immigrant ancestor of this family. The name Norfleet does not appear among the published lists of early Virginia immigrants who came in as so-called "Headrights." In the following patent it will be noted that "Thomas Northfleet" received, in 1668, a patent to land in Nansemond County, which had formerly been patented to one John Skerrett or Skerrott in 1654, and by the latter assigned to the said Thomas Northfleet
To all whereas now know ye, that I, Sir William Berkeley, Knight Governor, etc., do give and grant unto Thomas Northfleet three hundred acres of land, Scituate, lying and being on the Southern Branch of the Nansemond River, the said land having been formerly granted to John Skerrett by patent dated March 17, 1654, and by him assigned to the said Thomas Northfleet. Dated 3oth, of 7ber, 1668.
From the following patent it would appear that Thomas Northfleet had a son Thomas, whose name was then spelled "Norfleet," the th having been dropped. Since he is called "Jr." and received land "next to his own land," it is logical to assume that the acreage he already owned had come to him from his father, the first Thomas Northfleet.
To all whereas now know yee, I, Sir Edward Andros, Knight Gov- ernor, etc. give and grant unto Thomas Norfleet, Jr., of Nansemond County, one hundred and thirty acres of land, situate in the Upper Parish of Nansemond County, near Barbadoes Swamp, beginning at a corner of his own land, the same being due unto him for the transportation of three persons into the colony. Dated October as, 1695.
The patent quoted next indicates that Thomas Norfleet, Jr., had sons Edward and John
George the Second, to all know ye, that for divers good causes we have granted and confirmed unto Edward Norfleet, one certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the Upper Parish of Nansemond County on the Nansemond River, the said land being bounded by the lands of John Norfleet, and being surplus land within the bounds of a patent formerly granted to Thomas Norfleet. Dated June 25, 1733.
One of these was probably the grandfather of Abraham Norfleet, born in Nansemond County, Virginia, in 1774. It is thought that it was Edward, since the latter name is common in the family.
(Land Books, No. VI, p. Igo; No. IX, p. 20; No. XV, p. 79, at Virginia Land Office in Richmond.)
Surnames: Norfleet
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Origin of Orf, Meaning of Orf
Origin: Busco el sifnificado y lugar de origen del apellido Croff. Busco a Franz Croff que llego a Bolivia entre 1900 y 1930.
Surnames: corff lucero
Submitted by: César Croff |
Origin of Orf, Meaning of Orf
Origin: Deutschendorf: German Village
Surnames: Deutschendorf
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