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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for someone who collected or had to pay Bodenschatz, a levy on produce from his ground (property) or on wine sold in barrels, from Middle High German boden ‘bottom’, ‘ground’ + schatz ‘tax’, ‘rent’, ‘tithe’.

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