
| Posted By: | Hans Okkerman | |
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| Subject: | Re: ANNA MARIA OCKERMAN/LANCASTER PA/1759 | |
| Post Date: | December 25, 1999 at 09:32:18 | |
| Message URL: | http://genforum.genealogy.com/ockerman/messages/36.html | |
| Forum: | Ockerman Family Genealogy Forum | |
| Forum URL: | http://genforum.genealogy.com/ockerman/ |
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Ackerman (Akkerman) is a name that exists in the Netherlands. I don't think it is a misspelling of Ockerman since Ackerman means something like 'plough man'. Ockerman or Okkerman has no comparable meaning. Okkerman is the Dutch spelling of the German Ockermann. I think Ockerman is the English version, since mann (in German) means man (in Enlish and Dutch). The name Okkerman exists in the Netherlands, although it is a rare name, I also found it in Norway (through the net). |