Yes you are right. We think, The first people with the surname "Knipscheer" were tailers or something like that. And in the outside front of their shops they used a scissor as sign-board. So (in Dutch) a "Knipschaar" or "Schaar" But because they were living in Brabant, people in Brabant has the dialect tongue to say "scheer" if they mean "schaar". regards, arnold "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message news:52rcl3F1o7siaU1@mid.individual.net... >I read dutch as danish with spelling mistakes > both closely related to platdeutsch > > from 1600 to 1800 a patronmym means a surname in this context > > > then is it a dialect spelling in Brabant? > Knipschaar > > schaar tongs, scissors > http://www.freedict.com/onldict/dut.html > > > shears in english used for cutting wool from sheep > and traditionally made in one piece > also seen in viking archeology to hang from a womans belt with her keys as > a staus symbol of the mistress of the house > > and small sheer making is a traditional craft in Japan too > > or later big scissors used by tailors or trimming grass and hedges > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shears > or as a pictionary > http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=shears&btnG=Search+Images > http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=schaar&btnG=Search > > > > knips > snap shot, a small glassor bole of potent scnapps, or tongs or pliers > > > see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shears > > 1. German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of shears > and scissors, or a metonymic occupational name for a cutter (of cloth, > hair, etc.), from Middle High German schere, Middle Dutch sc(h)erre > ‘shears’. > 2. Jewish: variant of Scher. > German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German schere, > Middle Low German schere, Middle Dutch sceere, Yiddish sher ‘scissors’, > ‘shears’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of scissors or > shears, or for a barber, cloth cutter or possibly a sheep shearer. > > Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN > 0-19-508137-4 > > but > shear > English: nickname for a beautiful or radiant person, or one with fair > hair, from Middle English scher, schir ‘bright’, ‘fair’. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx > > kleermaker tailor clothier ? > > =================== > > Morbidity and Mortality According to Occupation > Jacques Bertillion > Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Dec., 1892), pp. > 559-600 > doi:10.2307/2979582 > > cutler, scissors maker > > > time to go shoppinng in LIDL for cheap fish > > Hugh W > > > Arnold O.Kn. wrote: > >> The answers to the question: "What does the name means as word" is >> completely wroten on: >> http://home.planet.nl/~frede313/20herkomst_naam.htm >> My sorry for the fact that it's only in the Dutch language. >> arnold >> >> "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:52ms5qF1o9d6eU2@mid.individual.net... >> >>>Arnold O.Kn. wrote: >>> >>> >>>>The Knipscheer Family Website. >>>>The address (url) of this website is: http://home.planet.nl/~frede313 >>>>The website contents a lot of pages, including genealogical. >>>>Take a look and find your Dutch or German ancestors >>>>Regards >>>>Arnold >>> >>>you could call it "the KNIPSCHEER one-name study" if you collect all >>>instances of the name including non family members >>> >>>what does the name means as a word? >>> >>>Hugh W >>> >>>-- >>> >>>a wonderful artist in Denmark >>>http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ >>> >>>Beta blogger >>>http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks >>> >>>old blogger GENEALOGE >>>http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > a wonderful artist in Denmark > http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ > > Beta blogger > http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks > > old blogger GENEALOGE > http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

cutting sheet metal we have a kind of scissors called a "tin snips" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_snips and a tailor calls his biggest scissors shears and uses pinking shears to trim edges of the cloth http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=%22pinking+shears Pinking shears are scissors, the blades of which are sawtoothed instead of straight. Pinking shears leave a zigzag pattern instead of a straight edge. Hugh W Arnold O.Kn. wrote: > Yes you are right. > We think, The first people with the surname "Knipscheer" were tailers or > something like that. And in the outside front of their shops they used a > scissor as sign-board. So (in Dutch) a "Knipschaar" or "Schaar" > But because they were living in Brabant, people in Brabant has the dialect > tongue to say "scheer" if they mean "schaar". > regards, arnold > > "Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:52rcl3F1o7siaU1@mid.individual.net... > >>I read dutch as danish with spelling mistakes >>both closely related to platdeutsch >> >>from 1600 to 1800 a patronmym means a surname in this context >> >> >>then is it a dialect spelling in Brabant? >> Knipschaar >> >>schaar tongs, scissors >>http://www.freedict.com/onldict/dut.html >> >> >>shears in english used for cutting wool from sheep >>and traditionally made in one piece >>also seen in viking archeology to hang from a womans belt with her keys as >>a staus symbol of the mistress of the house >> >>and small sheer making is a traditional craft in Japan too >> >>or later big scissors used by tailors or trimming grass and hedges >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shears >>or as a pictionary >>http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=shears&btnG=Search+Images >>http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=schaar&btnG=Search >> >> >> >>knips >>snap shot, a small glassor bole of potent scnapps, or tongs or pliers >> >> >>see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shears >> >> 1. German and Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a maker of shears >>and scissors, or a metonymic occupational name for a cutter (of cloth, >>hair, etc.), from Middle High German schere, Middle Dutch sc(h)erre >>‘shears’. >> 2. Jewish: variant of Scher. >>German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German schere, >>Middle Low German schere, Middle Dutch sceere, Yiddish sher ‘scissors’, >>‘shears’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of scissors or >>shears, or for a barber, cloth cutter or possibly a sheep shearer. >> >>Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN >>0-19-508137-4 >> >>but >>shear >>English: nickname for a beautiful or radiant person, or one with fair >>hair, from Middle English scher, schir ‘bright’, ‘fair’. >>http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/default.aspx >> >>kleermaker tailor clothier ? >> >>=================== >> >>Morbidity and Mortality According to Occupation >>Jacques Bertillion >>Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Dec., 1892), pp. >>559-600 >>doi:10.2307/2979582 >> >>cutler, scissors maker >> >> >>time to go shoppinng in LIDL for cheap fish >> >>Hugh W >> >> >>Arnold O.Kn. wrote: >> >> >>>The answers to the question: "What does the name means as word" is >>>completely wroten on: >>>http://home.planet.nl/~frede313/20herkomst_naam.htm >>>My sorry for the fact that it's only in the Dutch language. >>>arnold >>> >>>"Hugh Watkins" <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> wrote in message >>>news:52ms5qF1o9d6eU2@mid.individual.net... >>> >>> >>>>Arnold O.Kn. wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>The Knipscheer Family Website. >>>>>The address (url) of this website is: http://home.planet.nl/~frede313 >>>>>The website contents a lot of pages, including genealogical. >>>>>Take a look and find your Dutch or German ancestors >>>>>Regards >>>>>Arnold >>>> >>>>you could call it "the KNIPSCHEER one-name study" if you collect all >>>>instances of the name including non family members >>>> >>>>what does the name means as a word? >>>> >>>>Hugh W -- a wonderful artist in Denmark http://www.ingerlisekristoffersen.dk/ Beta blogger http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks old blogger GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG