This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: REMSTEDT SEVEUS LUERKTE LULLMANN HOMEFELD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/3609.3.1 Message Board Post: Is this surname sometimes used as a first name? My RIMSTIDT (Remstedt - Rhemstedt- etc) family which lived "in sight of Bremen" in that same era named one of their 17 children "Bruenje" or something very similar. (Perhaps they had used up all the other available names!) It might give me a clue to a female line or related family ... Barbara Rice