Hi, I got the following mail from someone who has relatives in Waldeck: "To my knowledge these names in brackets refer to house names. My relatives in Waldeck told me that these names refer to the first owner of the house (or farm). Sometimes the house name was also attached to the surname of the current owner, e. g. "Hermann BECKER vulgo PAGGELS". In the villages of my ancestors the old house names are still used nowadays to be able to differentiate between common surnames." Did I tell you that the surname BECKER originates from the profession baker? Diether