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Subject: Re: Origin of Fredricksen
Author: Mar   (Authenticated as X-Mar)
Date: February 7, 2006 at 2:28:07 PM
Reply to: Origin of Fredricksen by JUDITH M CLARK
Hermanus does sound Dutch, Dutch had the tendancy to latinize names (putting -us behind it) and -sen is very common in Dutch last names
If it were Dutch he would have been known as Hermanus Frederickszoon around 1600.



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