Glockhoff
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24 November, 2013 - 17:07
I am researching the family name Glockhoff and so far it does not seem to be a very common name. My ancestor came over to the US as Glockhof with only one "f". Records state that he was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1826. It is my understanding that glock means bell in German but I am not sure what the hoff means. Would appreciate any info about the meaning and I am curious if anyone has heard of the name before. Thanks!!
I am researching the family name Glockhoff and so far it does not seem to be a very common name. My ancestor came over to the US as Glockhof with only one "f". Records state that he was born in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1826. It is my understanding that glock means bell in German but I am not sure what the hoff means. Would appreciate any info about the meaning and I am curious if anyone has heard of the name before. Thanks!!
Hallo,
NO ENTRIES IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA AND SWITZERLAND THE NAME GLOCKHOFF, GLOCKHOF, GLOCKENHOF, GLOCKENHOFF, IN THE "TODAY'S" TIME.
(KEINE EINTRÄGE IN DEUTSCHLAND, ÖSTERREICH UND DER SCHWEIZ ZUM NAMEN GLOCKHOFF ODER GLOCKHOF)
KLOCKENHOFF= approximately 80 Entries in 23 different country revolve in Germany. Most of the in the district Unna (NW)
The Unna district is a District in central North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany……
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unna_%28district%29
The Place (Village) Name Glockhof in Austria:
http://postleitzahl.de.mapawi.com/osterreich/9/thomasberg/3/1145/glockhof/2842/10194
The Glockhof was a little more than 200 years, a bell founder own, because of the excellent skill in his art a significant ....................
(Der Glockhof war vor etwas mehr als 200 Jahren einem Glockengießer eigen, der wegen vorzüglicher Geschicklichkeit in seiner Kunst einen bedeutende......)
http://sho.rtlink.de/Glockhof
Glockenhof is also the name /a district of Nuremberg in Bavaria/Germany. 1825 Glockenhof was incorporated as a village in the municipality Gleisshammer together with the truce to Nuremberg. Glockenhof created in 1569 by the renaming of the original Upper Galgenhofs by Christopher I. Glockengießer.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glockenhof
The Glockenhof encountered first as (top) Galgenhof, named after the nearby nearby gallows of the high court, which was created after the last expansion of the city. The first probably purely peasant farms were in the late 15th Century "free louder own" possession of Haller and given to farmers as Erbzinslehen. As early Eigenherr 1491 Wolfgang Haller the Elder is visible, while already in 1471 Martin Wagner and his wife Catherine the "inheritance" had on the Upper Galgenhof. In 1494 it became part of Erhard Marstaller to 1,094 guilders on the Hofkomplex three farmers were at this time out………
http://www.herrensitze.com/glockenhof.html
In the name Glockenhof it khan delt mostly also around a courtyard in which there was a bell-at work. Bellfounder or bellmaker. Or simply a house name.
-hoff, -hof: -Hof(f)“, =homestead; Dwellings made of wood and enclosures.
Middle Low German and Low German = hoff. Middle High German, Old High German= Hof.
(However courtyard of a house or a farm ( German=Bauernhof) , or a churchyard etc.)
Or: Text and information into German: (Search function, the magnifying glass top right)
http://www.onomastik.com/search/node/hof%20hoff
One more thing to bell/bells:also refer tothe geographic designation for a piece of land (Toponymy). And not necessarily on bell (in the tower). this means: the location, appearance, plot of land ect..
This here is a Onomastics foum (Meaning of names). No genealogy forum. Well….For ancestor research:
http://sho.rtlink.de/FamilyHistorySearch