When Fedde Jacobs Braaksma was born in 1772, in Dantumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands, his father, Jacob Jelkes Braaksma, was 44 and his mother, Folkje Douwes Feddema, was 28. He married Maaike Harmens Nicolai on 28 June 1807, in Dantumawoude, Friesland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died on 4 February 1850, in Akkerwoude, Friesland, Netherlands, at the age of 78.
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West Frisian and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of wasteland or newly cultivated land, from Frisian, Dutch braak ‘fallow, waste’ or ‘place where a dike burst’ + the Frisian suffix -ma, which originally denoted ‘(one of the) men of’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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