Brief Life History of Becke
Becke House was born in 1790, in New York, United States.
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Sources (1)
- Audoph and Backe house in Klock Papers, Part three - Klock Connections
World Events (3)
1791
Age 1
1791 · The Bill of Rights
Age 1
1797 · Albany is Named Capital of New York
Age 7
Name Meaning
English: topographic or occupational name for someone employed ‘at the house’, from Middle English hous(e) (Old English hūs), probably a religious house such as a convent. In the Middle Ages the majority of the population lived in cottages or huts rather than houses.
English: variant of Howes .
English: perhaps a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English huse, a southwest dialect form of Old English hyse ‘place overgrown with (water) plants’, a derivative of Old English hos ‘(water) plant’. In modern English, the name might have been absorbed into Huss or Hose .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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