Re: Ingebor L Rossiter
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Re: Ingebor L Rossiter
Kevin Finn 9/07/11
You wrote:
"Once again, many, many thanks for all the information and for the explanation re: the naming system in Norway, which seems similar to the one in Iceland where the word son or daughter is added to their father's Christian name.
If I understand this correctly,Rosaeter in this instance, appears to be a community surname based on the domicile in which a person lives and thus it is possible for people who are not blood relatives to have the same community surname because they live in the same domicile."
I answer: It was precisely like the Iceland naming system, but in about 1925 permanent surnames in Norway were required.
You are right about the surname for an area - people in the same farm area would take the same farm name, and not be related.(But sometimes, because of the low mobility of the families in the fjord, and the acceptability of marrying cousins, they might be related anyway.)
The farm names usually meant something.They were either descriptive of the topography of an area, and were often made up of a couple of parts, like a compound word.Sæter means mountain pasture.Ro-sæter might mean peaceful(quiet) mountain pasture.
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Re: Ingebor L Rossiter
Kevin Finn 9/08/11