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Surname Saturday: Schroeder (Western Ohio)

10/27/2012

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When I married my husband, I was somewhat looking forward to taking his last name.  I had grown up with a Polish surname, and it was actually one of the easier Polish names to spell and pronounce.  However, I found that once I left my very ethnic hometown where such names were common, I was continually asked to repeat my name and spell it out S-L-O-W-L-Y (and then they'd still get it wrong!).  So, I thought to myself, 'Schroeder' - fairly common and straightforward, right?  Well, not so much, really.  I soon learned that there are many ways to spell what sounds like schro-der or schro-ter, and that it may actually be pronounced schra-der or schra-ter depending on each family's tradition of saying it.  

The name Schroeder (and all of is mix-and-match variants like S(c)hra(t)der and S(c)hro(e)ter) is a common and old family name with origins in medieval Northern Germany.  It comes from the Middle Low German word(s) schroden/schraden which means "to cut," and it was a surname  first given to tailors (people who cut cloth for a living), occasionally shoemakers (people who cut leather for a living), and also to draymen who would drive around large carts and deliver bulk quantities of beer and wine.  Now we're talking!

I have been able to trace my husband's Schroeder family back to Frank Schroeder, who came to America probably sometime around 1850.  I don't know the exact year because I haven't found his immigration ship manifest yet.  In the
1860 Census, his place of birth is listed as Oldenburg, Germany, which is in the northern part of the country.
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Surname information source:  http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?view=3&surname=schroeder
©2012, copyright Emily Kowalski Schroeder
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