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Porto, Portugal June 9, 2001
The name Deterding is typically Westphalian and seems concentrated in an arc around the city of Hanover. The earliest mention I have found is to the year 1353 in Isenhagen. Deterdings are also mentioned in Stadhagen on April 15, 1618, when Ottorab Deterding married Regina Elisabeth Bohne there. There were also two brothers, Gerhard and Johann Melchior Deterding, born probably in the 1670's, who migrated to Hanover and were accepted as citizens of Hanover in 1707 and 1701 respectively. You might be a descendent of Ottorab.
My family goes back to a schoolmaster named Heinrich in the small town of Einbeck south of Hanover at the end of 17th century. My ancestor Caspar Deterding was born in nearby Stoeckheim in 1770 and died in Hildesheim in 1844. He was a soldier as was his son and grandson, both oboists in the band of a Hanovarian infantry regiment. My great-grandfather Gustav Ernst Deterding was released from the army in 1866 and became a stationmaster in the Prussian Railways. His daughter Margarethe was my grandmother and she immigrated to San Francisco in 1887 with other members of her family. She met and married my grandfather, Friedrich Illing, in S.F. in 1888 and died there in 1928.
There was a Heinrich Deterding who served as chapelin in the Swedish army in what's now Estonia in the mid-17th century. From 1667 to his death in 1679 he was pastor of the church in Wremen on the coast north of Bremerhaven. I would suspect that his family were also of Westphalian origin. During the 17th century there were also some learned doctors named Deterding in Denmark.
The name probably means son of or descendent of Dethard. The "ing" ending in German normally has a patronymic meaning.
Hope this is of use to you.
Regards,
Bob Illing
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