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