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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Kalklöser, an occupational name for someone who quarried lime, from Kalk ‘lime’, ‘chalk’ + an agent derivative of lösen ‘to loosen’.
  • According to a passenger list, four persons called Kalcklöser arrived in Philadelphia aboard the Allen on September 11, 1729.

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