Re: Zornes name origin
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Re: Zornes name origin
Beverly Sweeney 5/02/99
I just found where Jacob Zorn landed in Penn. on the ship Friendship in 1738. He ( and the other passengers) are listed as Palantinate. Other Zorn listed are Andreas in 1752, Casper sept1754 & Conrad dec1754. They too are listed as from Palatine and one of them from Wirtemberg (sorry - don't remember which) Palatine is a reagion of what we call Germany - about 1730 it was still part of the Holy Roman Empire. Anyway, the Rhine runs through it and the area west of the Rhine is Wurttemberg (there should be an umlat over the u)so I'd guess that' where the name originated, although I understand Zorn in found in Poland and Russia too. Zorn can also mean scorn.