Meaning/Pronunciation: Pronunciation: Bord-wick., also Bord-veek Meaning: Have been unable at this time to find a specific meaning, though we believe it is a place name surname.
Origin: According to the family lore, it comes from a town in Germany, Bardowiek, though I am uncertain how far back we have to go to find the ancestor who originated from the town.
Variations: Bordewick and Bordewich, but also Bordevig, Bordevick, Bordeviksen, and I’ve seen Johan Petter Bordewich’s daughters listed as Johansdatter, Johansen, and Johan Petersen.
Relation to me: My mother’s father’s father’s mother.
Ancestors:
i: Bordevick, Leonharde, 1861 – 1944, Nordland, Norway; Henrick Bordewick, 3 sons
ii: Bordevick, Johan; 1802-1879; Norway?; Leonharde Linkhausen, 7 sons, 4 daughters; Henrikke Roness, 1 son, 3 daughters
iii: Bordevick, Hans; 1769-1813; Norway?, Anna Tiller, 3 sons
Looking for:
Any further information on Hans Heinrich Bordewick and his wife Anna Magdalena Johnsdatter Tiller and their family, particularly his parents.
Also interested in any further information about Johan Bordewich’s two wives.
I was actually going to post this as Bordewich, but after some consultation with one of my Danish friends, and the records I’ve found when I do go back this far, I’m going to go with the more Scandinavian spelling over the Germanic version.
I’m also wondering (if there’s anyone out there actually reading this) when people tend to change the names in their family tree program? The moment they see an alternate spelling? Or do they just keep all alternate versions, and not change what’s in their original record?
ETA: I should add the reason I had her listed in my tree as Bordewich.
The Bordewick tree came to me whole through Leonharde's grandparents when I first received it. And when I did, all the Bordewicks had that spelling for their last name. Then, a few years back, we had contact with family who spelled their name with a ch instead of ck. After some discussion with my mother and her siblings (my grandfather has been dead since shortly before I started my genealogy search), I determined that it must have changed shortly after the beginning of the century, with my great-great grandfather and great-great grandmother. So I changed all the surnames in the Bordwick clan (his brothers and sisters and father and further-back ancestors and corollary family) to Bordewich.
But in my recent explorations and finds in my family tree has found a number of name-variants. None of which seem to be the -ch variant. The Bordevick variant seems the most likely variant when they didn't use the -sen patrynomic root surname.
So what do you think? Bordewick? Bordevick? Bordewich?
BORDEVICK (Norway>Belgium, Canada)
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Elf Flame
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Labels: Bordewick , Surname Saturday
8 comments :
Personally I wouldn't change a spelling from an original record, but just keep a note of an alternate spelling, but that's just me.
Well, in this case, I'd always spelled it Bordewick because that's how the family spelled it. Then a few years back, we found another branch of the family that spelled it with a ch, so I assumed that before WWI or so, that's how it was spelled, but seeing in documentation that it's spelled -vick... I'm inclined to believe that over the other two reasonings. If that makes sense?
I guess in this case I'd say go with whatever you have on any actual documentation. That's the most likely version.
The problem with that is it's different on a number of documents, unfortunately. But Bordevick does repeat, so that seems the most likely.
It ultimately doesn't matter, really, as long as you have a list somewhere of all the alternate spellings.
For what it is worth, my uncle will make a parenthetical note in the tree with alternate spellings if he finds them.
That's what I've been trying to do, at least. But I do wonder when I should choose one name over another as the one to list them by in my records... Perhaps preponderance of the evidence, I suppose. Use whichever name I find them listed as most.
Perhaps preponderance of the evidence, I suppose. Use whichever name I find them listed as most.
that would be the best method in my opinion.
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