Many, many thanks, Ingolf. Stan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ingolf Vogel" <vogeling@freenet.de> To: <SURNAME-ORIGINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] WICKMAN, METCALFE > Hello, > > > WICKMAN (English) > > 1. Someone who lived in an outlying settlement dependent upon a larger > village. > > Wik (Danish Vik, German Wich/Wig, Low German Wik, Dutch Wijk) is ideed an > (old) word for settlement. It's still used in Dutch to denote "quarter". > (Brunswick, Waalwik, Steenwijk) > However all the sources I have looked at give Wichmann/Wickmann/Wigmann as > stemming from the Old German/Anglosaxon word "wig" meaning war. > I'll check a few otehr books my local library, to see if any one of them > give "Wikmann" as stemming from Wik/Wig = village. > > Regards, > > Ingolf Vogel > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >