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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch or German : unexplained. The surname Beckhorn is also found, which may be a variant of this.
  • The baptismal records of the Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester Co., NY, have an entry for November 20, 1736, for Job, son of Job Becoren and his wife Jannetie.

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