> Is KUSCH a spelling variant of KUSS ? Hi malinda, I don't think so. KUSCH maybe has a french origin "couche", "coucher" = lay down, sleep... from "collocare" Till now, I couldn't clear beyond all doubt whether the following names are in connection with the name KUES - anybody an idea?: COUESNON, COUEZ, COUET, COUEZ, COUSSE, COUSEN, KUESS, KÜES, KUIS, KUIJS, KUSE, KUSS, KUSSE, KUUS

While I still haven't found KUES, I did find: COUSEN (Eng. and Fr.) and it means "cousin", a relative of a prominent person in the community. KUSS, KUSSE (Ger.) Descendant of Kus, a pet form of Marcus (belonging to Mars, the god of war), and of Dominicus (the Lord's day). ---Source: New Dictionary of American Family Names by Elsdon C. Smith. As you can see, at least those two names are not related to one another. KUSCH ( German, of Slavic origin) Diminutive of JAKOB, from the Hebrew given name "Yaakov". ---Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara Guido Schulz wrote: >>Is KUSCH a spelling variant of KUSS ? >> >> > >Hi malinda, > >I don't think so. KUSCH maybe has a french origin "couche", "coucher" = >lay down, sleep... from "collocare" > >Till now, I couldn't clear beyond all doubt whether the following names >are in connection with the name KUES - anybody an idea?: > >COUESNON, COUEZ, COUET, COUEZ, COUSSE, COUSEN, KUESS, KÜES, KUIS, KUIJS, >KUSE, KUSS, KUSSE, KUUS > > > >============================== >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 > > > >

Perhaps it's because I'm not German speaking myself, but I'm having trouble understanding the leap from Jacob/Yaakov to Kusch. What am I missing ??? ~malinda -----Original Message----- From: LaChance [mailto:lachance@ccis.com] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:39 AM To: SURNAME-ORIGINS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] KUES/KUSCH While I still haven't found KUES, I did find: COUSEN (Eng. and Fr.) and it means "cousin", a relative of a prominent person in the community. KUSS, KUSSE (Ger.) Descendant of Kus, a pet form of Marcus (belonging to Mars, the god of war), and of Dominicus (the Lord's day). ---Source: New Dictionary of American Family Names by Elsdon C. Smith. As you can see, at least those two names are not related to one another. KUSCH ( German, of Slavic origin) Diminutive of JAKOB, from the Hebrew given name "Yaakov". ---Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara Guido Schulz wrote: >>Is KUSCH a spelling variant of KUSS ? >> >> > >Hi malinda, > >I don't think so. KUSCH maybe has a french origin "couche", "coucher" = >lay down, sleep... from "collocare" > >Till now, I couldn't clear beyond all doubt whether the following names >are in connection with the name KUES - anybody an idea?: > >COUESNON, COUEZ, COUET, COUEZ, COUSSE, COUSEN, KUESS, KÜES, KUIS, KUIJS, >KUSE, KUSS, KUSSE, KUUS > > > >============================== >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 > > > > ============================== 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