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From: "Kiesel, Klaus" <>
Subject: Re: 1560-1584 word meaning, Wuerttemberg
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:08:35 +0200


At 2:54 Uhr +0000 01.07.1998, Celia E. Mitschelen wrote:
>What does the term Knapper mean. I have found it in Tauf records
>between 1560 and 1584 following the father's name where occupation or
>Stand is written. Only one person has been so designated.
>
>Today I found a death record: "Anna der Knappers Doechterlin" and the
>date.
>
>I recognize little daughter and not having a name to go with Knapper
>doesn't bother me. With all the Tauf records I know this has to be Hans
>Schoeckh.
>
>I want to know what a Knapper might have been at that time. The closest
>I get is Knappe, a sheild bearer and that doesn't seem to fit this
>farmer in a small village who must have stayed around home according
>the regular entries for his children in the Tauf Register.
>
>Celia

A Knapper means is a dialcet of the souht-west of Germany somebody which limp, go lame, hobble

Gruss Klaus Kiesel


Klaus Kiesel
Ringstr. 6
D-79252 Stegen
Tel. 07661-7508

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