In article <002e01c02594$3f042e40$79dbccc3@jan>, jmk@ah.telia.no (Jan M. Keus) wrote: > Johan Kampeman wrote: > > > "Schutte" is a typical Dutch last name. So it might be very well that the > > little girl who brought Lutheranism to Norway, came from Holland. > > I agree, the name Schutte sounds dutch. I have never met this name in > Norway. The telephone directory for 2000 for Oslo does f. e. not show any > person by this name. I am studying ancestors of Scott family in the northern European countries. We have various spellings of names Schot, Schotte, Skyt, Skytte, Scot, Skot, Skotte etc. (all in Scandinavia); Scot, Scotte, Schotte, Schotten (in Netherlands); Schott, von Schott, von Scott (in Germany, France and Czech); von Scott (Russia), etc. The origins of these names have possibly been e.g.: 1) The ancestors emigrated from Scotland 2) Seamen who have visited Scotland 3) The names are originally soldier names. The word "skot" means shot in the Scandinavian languages. The name Skytte has also a connection to the Lutheran church. Martin Skytte (1480-1550) was the first Lutheran bishop of Turku (Finland) since 1528. hh.