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Europe / Danish expertise wanted
« on: Sunday 06 June 10 23:19 BST (UK) »
I won't ask for translations... though I have a great need of them it would be too mammoth a task for someone to do!
What I would really appreciate is some advice on how my ancestors might have acquired the surname Jegsing. It occurs for a very short period in, it seems, just one area and doesn't follow the usual patronymic pattern.
Though information on naming patterns suggest that patronymic naming went on until the 19thC, I've found that, with a few occasional exceptions in censuses, my family took the name of Clausen from Claus Jegsing with the birth of his son, Jens, in 1774 and passed the Clausen name on from then on (marriages, deaths and most census head of households took Clausen, even though they may have been listed as Jensen or Hansen in censuses as children).
I know that sometimes families took the name of a previous occupant of a farm or a nickname, especially if this name was less common than their real one... but I can't find anything in Danish... or through "detect language" on Google translate to work out where Jegsing came from. Though I can't find Claus Jegsing's birth (or any Claus in the only parish the name appears around his birth in 1748), there are some Jegsings baptising children at the time... Ole Jegsing and Jorgen Jegsing.
At Marriage, Claus was named Claus Mortensen Jegsing... so I was thinking he was likely to be son of Mortne Jegsing, but there's no sign of a man of this name.
Any help would be much appreciated
What I would really appreciate is some advice on how my ancestors might have acquired the surname Jegsing. It occurs for a very short period in, it seems, just one area and doesn't follow the usual patronymic pattern.
Though information on naming patterns suggest that patronymic naming went on until the 19thC, I've found that, with a few occasional exceptions in censuses, my family took the name of Clausen from Claus Jegsing with the birth of his son, Jens, in 1774 and passed the Clausen name on from then on (marriages, deaths and most census head of households took Clausen, even though they may have been listed as Jensen or Hansen in censuses as children).
I know that sometimes families took the name of a previous occupant of a farm or a nickname, especially if this name was less common than their real one... but I can't find anything in Danish... or through "detect language" on Google translate to work out where Jegsing came from. Though I can't find Claus Jegsing's birth (or any Claus in the only parish the name appears around his birth in 1748), there are some Jegsings baptising children at the time... Ole Jegsing and Jorgen Jegsing.
At Marriage, Claus was named Claus Mortensen Jegsing... so I was thinking he was likely to be son of Mortne Jegsing, but there's no sign of a man of this name.
Any help would be much appreciated