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To: PAR35
Anyone know the origin of that? It's one I've not run across before.

Prussian.
In German, it means door.
Die Tür = The door.

Also the name of a city, now in Poland. Tur.

Was Prussia, then Germany, now Poland.

Lots of people have the name of the town their ancestors hailed from.

14 posted on 01/21/2015 4:49:16 PM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: Bon mots

Viel danke.


17 posted on 01/21/2015 5:25:12 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Bon mots

Belfast :)


18 posted on 01/21/2015 6:17:23 PM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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To: Bon mots; PAR35

“Lots of people have the name of the town their ancestors hailed from.”

I suppose it could be a German name, but it is more likely Spanish or Jewish:

http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=tur

I checked a few German name lists and it doesn’t appear.


20 posted on 01/21/2015 7:59:54 PM PST by vladimir998
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