Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: Surnames: Nolf Family Genealogy Forum Re: NOLFF,NOLF,NULPH Posted by: Jean-Michel Nolf Date: May 31, 2000 at 07:19:09 In Reply to: NOLFF,NOLF,NULPH by Bill Nulph of 109 The only thing I know, Bill, or at least, the only thing I've been told about the germanic origin of the name is that "NOLF" would be a corrupted form of "ARNOLPH" or "ARNULPH", coming itself from two old german words : "ARN" meaning "EAGLE" and "WULF" which became "WOLF" later on. I don't know whether this explanation is true or not. Do you know anything about it? Kind regards Jean-Michel Nolf By the way, in France we don't use first name and second name as you do in USA, "Jean-Michel" is a whole and only first name... Followups: Re: NOLFF,NOLF,NULPH janet mannor 11/26/00 Re: NOLFF,NOLF,NULPH Bill Nulph 5/31/00 Re: NOLFF,NOLF,NULPH Jean-Michel Nolf 6/03/00 Re: NOLFF,NOLF,NULPH Bill Nulph 6/03/00 http://genforum.genealogy.com/nolf/messages/15.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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