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From: "Janice M. Healy" <>
Subject: Re: [NJ-GSNJ] What does keln mean?
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 16:35:06 -0700
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You already have Ken, seems this list serve replies to only the list.
I discovered that this morning when I sent the note to you.

Thanks
Janice

>Janice: You won't find it any dictionary over the current ones. You must
>go to
>back to Webster's Third new International dictionary that's dated 1963. I
>have a few old ones, so that's how I found out the word you requested. The
>definitions is: "To burn, fire, or dry in a kiln."
>
>As you know others this day have asked for this information, so maybe you
>can pass it on to others.
>
>Ken
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Janice M. Healy" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:10 AM
>Subject: Re: [NJ-GSNJ] What does keln mean?
>
>
>> >Janice,
>>>
>>>Keln, is a coke furnace generally for firing bricks. Or now the spelling
>>>is
>>>Kiln. The old German spelling was Keln. As with a lot of German words used
>>>'e' instead of 'I'.
>>
>> Well that one I know as grand dad had a coke furnace but this was
>> used as "along the banks of the keln" I suspect the county recorder
>> wrote Keln when he should have written kill. Some how I don't
>> remember grand dad having an banks along the keln. But this is an
>> interesting thought. But would they have had a coke furnace back in
>> 1796 - 1803 time period?
>>
>> Thanks Harold as I hadn't thought about a furnace when reading this deed.
>>
>> Janice
>> Aloha, Oregon
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Harold J. Murray
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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