Foxglove (family name)
Foxglove is a family name .
Meaning of the family name
The meaning of the family name Foxglove cannot be exactly understood. According to Kaspar Linnartz, the family name Fingerhut (h) is the short form for thimble, thimble maker or a nickname for the tailor or for the bagger. As a surname for the manufacturer or the user (tailor), the name is shown in the Duden dictionary "Family name - origin and meaning". Hans Bahlow also sees the name thimble as a nickname for the thimble maker or tailor. This meaning is also presented in other literature on the origin of family names.
If one sees the spread of the first documented thimble in the agricultural areas of the Spessart, in the Swisttal and in the Waldeckischen, then the derivation of the name from the profession of the thimble maker is not obvious. More likely the nickname from a tailor or Beutler. Or the name holder has immigrated to these areas.
Helmut Greif mentions in his book “Die Nürnberger Fingerhüter” on the development of a medieval guild and the genealogy of their families that next to Nuremberg “in the Sauerland, in Holland and especially in Flanders, ie where the centers of thimble production were”, the family name is used Foxglove is quite common. However, it leaves open the source on which these statements are based. The website of the Thimble Museum in Creglingen states that “the breakthrough for thimble production was in the 15th century when copper foundries in Cologne, who had made thimbles up until then, found a metal that turned the copper yellow : The so-called brass casters threw soil containing zinc into the liquid copper and found the brass. But due to the resulting air pollution, the “brass casters” had to leave the city of Cologne in the 15th century. ”This indication is an indication that the Fingerhuths, which can be proven in Swisttal from around 1630 onwards, could be descendants of these finger guards from Cologne.
Name frequency
Germany
The German telephone directory contains around 600 entries for the names Fingerhut or Fingerhuth. The distribution of the occurrences in Germany is shown in the following graphic based on the telephone book entries:
The Fingerhut (h) families living in Germany today can be traced back to four genealogical lines:
- the Waldeckische Line
The origin of these lines lies in the villages north and east of Korbach up to Marsberg and Bad Wünnenberg . All occurrences living there could essentially be traced back to six top ancestors ( ancestors ). Most of the descendants of this line are the thimble families in the Märkisches Sauerland, in Wuppertal and in the Ruhr area.
- the Spessart Line
This line was mainly based in the Hessian Spessart. The descendants are likely to be the Fingerhuts, who still live in the Hessian and Bavarian Spessart today. The main focus of the settlement today is Biebergemünd . The foxgloves living in this area can be traced back to five pointed ancestors. The connection between Sebastian Fingerhut, who is said to have lived in Ruppertshütten around 1500 , has not yet been proven with the top ancestors. The foxglove deposits in the Banat also descend from this line . Their descendants now mainly live in southern Germany, Austria and the USA.
- the Swisttaler line
The thimble of this line settled in the villages between Ahr and Erft. The main focus of today's settlement is the Cologne-Bonn area. The spelling of the name Fingerhuth essentially comes from this line.
- The Lower Rhine Line
The Lower Rhine Line has not yet been clearly delimited. The deposits on the Lower Rhine around Bislich / Wesel are temporarily summarized here. However, it can be assumed that deposits up to Duisburg / Mülheim on the one hand and in the Netherlands on the other hand also belong to this line.
Whether there are family relationships between these lines cannot be concluded from the current data situation.
Europe
The Internet telephone books of the countries listed below contain the specified number of telephone book entries for the respective names (2003):
| country | Number of entries | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| thimble | Thimble |
Vingerhoet (s) Vingerhoed (s) |
Surname | Number of entries |
|
| Belgium | 1 | 1 | 67 | Doigtier | - |
| France | 15th | - | - | Doigtier | - |
| Great Britain | 9 | - | - | Thimble | 11 |
| Italy | 2 | 1 | - | Digital | 10 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | - | - | Doigtier | - |
| Netherlands | 3 | - | 345 | ||
| Austria | 29 | - | - | ||
| Romania | 1 | 1 | |||
| Switzerland | 4th | 12 | - | - | |
| Spain | 5 | 1 | Dedal | 21st | |
| Czech Republic | 34 | - | Náprstek | 67 | |
| Hungary | 8th | 2 | Gyűszű | 15th | |
United States
The US Internet telephone books contain the number of telephone book entries for the name Foxglove (2003):
| country | Number of entries |
| USA, Arizona | 3 |
| United States, Arkansas | 4th |
| USA, California | 26th |
| USA, Colorado | 1 |
| United States, Connecticut | 6th |
| USA, DC | 5 |
| USA, Florida | 34 |
| USA, Georgia | 3 |
| USA, Illinois | 19th |
| USA, Indiana | 13 |
| USA, Maryland | 13 |
| USA, Massachusetts | 3 |
| United States, Minnesota | 2 |
| United States, Missouri | 21st |
| United States, Nebraska | 7th |
| USA, Nevada | 2 |
| USA, New Jersey | 20th |
| USA, New York | 56 |
| USA, North Carolina | 6th |
| USA, Oklahoma | 8th |
| USA, Oregon | 3 |
| USA, Pennsylvania | 7th |
| USA, South Carolina | 1 |
| USA, South Dakota | 2 |
| USA, Texas | 1 |
| United States, Vermont | 2 |
| USA, Virginia | 5 |
| USA, Washington | 2 |
| USA, Ohio | 21st |
| United States, Wisconsin | 12 |
| USA, all states | 309 |
The occurrences in the USA are probably to a considerable extent due to thimble families of the Jewish faith, who essentially emigrated to the USA from the Eastern European countries.
The local focus of the deposits was Lublin, Piotrkow (Katowice Province), Kalisz (Poznań Province), Stanislawow Wojewodztwa (Ukraine), Piotrkow (Kielce Province), Kraków, Lwow Wojewodztwa (Ukraine), Warszawa and a number of other places with smaller deposits.
Name bearer
- Heinrich Vingerhut, around 1232 master builder at the Protestant Marienkirche in Gelnhausen
- Johann Baptist Fingerhuth, portrait and decoration painter in Cologne, b. 1774, died May 13, 1836. A lithograph of him is also known.
- Helmut Fingerhut (1921–2016), civil servant state secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense from 1972 to 1978
- Eric Fingerhut (born May 6, 1959, in University Heights, Ohio ) is an American politician in Ohio's Democratic Party
- Ulrich Fingerhut , German Taekwondo Champion (1968)
Web links
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Family research thimble
- Register of names of all persons named Fingerhut (Fingerhuth / Vingerhoet), including ancestors and descendants.
- Family research thimble for parts of the Waldeck line
Individual evidence
- ↑ Our family names by Kaspar Linnartz, Volume 1 3rd edition 1958
- ↑ German Name Lexicon 1967 by Hans Bahlow, Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach, 1991
- ↑ Die Nürnberger Fingerhüter, Helmut Greif 1989, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, page 14
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ General Lexicon of Visual Artists, Ulrich Thieme, Seemann Verlag Leipzig
