Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: Surnames: Cordes Family Genealogy Forum Re: Cordes surname Posted by: Phil Cordes Date: January 09, 1999 at 15:29:01 In Reply to: Re: Cordes surname by Phil Cordes of 345 I just re-read my earlier correspondence from a Martin Cordes who has lived in Germany all his life. His explanation of the Cordes name is: "Cordes name comes from surname of Konrad, Kurt and Cord. In 12th & 13th centuries family names did not exist, (opposite of what I wrote earlier)and a child had a first name ONLY. He was identified as 'Heinrich, Cord's son'. Cord being the first (only) name of father. This evolved into Cordsen and Cordes" Followups: Re: Cordes surname LeAnn 6/29/99 (0) Re: Cordes surname Jean Hines 11/14/99 http://genforum.genealogy.com/cordes/messages/18.html Search this forum: Find all of the words Find any of the words Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching Agreement of Use Link to GenForum Add Forum

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