[Grobbel.ftw]
"Er Nahm bei seiner Einheirat auf Grobbeln Hof nach Landesbrauch den Hofnamen an".
"He accepted the farm name, when he married onto the Grobbel farm, likeit was a common thing".
Elsa Grobbelen inherited the Grobbel Family Ancestral Farm (Grobbel Hof)in Obringhausen, which was unusual since the family farm always went tothe eldest surviving male child. This made her "choice" marriagematerial since it represented an opportunity for a younger son (such asJacob Boddecker) to acquire a farm of his own through marriage. Theirchildren's surname in German would be "Boddecker, genannt Grobbelen"(abbreviated as Boddecker, gt. Grobbelen). In English, this means"Boddecker, called Grobbelen". People were "called" according to thename of the Hof that they were born (or lived) on, even if their fatherwas born on a different Hof.The net effect of this practice is that the woman who inherited the farmkept her maiden name, her husband accepted her maiden name as his own andtheir children were called by her maiden name (but for record-keepingpurposes, the children's surname took the form ("father's surname", gt."mother's maiden surname")
[Grobbel.ftw]
"Er Nahm bei seiner Einheirat auf Grobbeln Hof nach Landesbrauch den Hofnamen an".
"He accepted the farm name, when he married onto the Grobbel farm, likeit was a common thing".
Elsa Grobbelen inherited the Grobbel Family Ancestral Farm (Grobbel Hof)in Obringhausen, which was unusual since the family farm always went tothe eldest surviving male child. This made her "choice" marriagematerial since it represented an opportunity for a younger son (such asJacob Bodecker) to acquire a farm of his own through marriage. Theirchildren's surname in German would be "Bodecker, genannt Grobbelen"(abbreviated as Bodecker, gt. Grobbelen). In English, this means"Bodecker, called Grobbelen". People were "called" according to the nameof the Hof that they were born on, even if their father was born on adifferent Hof.The net effect of this practice is that the woman who inherited the farmkept her maiden name, her husband accepted her maiden name as his own andtheir children were called by her maiden name (but for record-keepingpurposes, the children's surname took the form ("father's surname", gt."mother's maiden surname")