When Maarten Vogel was born on 5 April 1806, in Bleskensgraaf, South Holland, Netherlands, his father, Arije Vogel, was 42 and his mother, Meinsje Boer, was 38. He married Ariaantje de Haan on 26 January 1843, in Holland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 10 June 1886, in his hometown, at the age of 80.
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The Dutch defeated the French.
In 1810, when Louis Bonaparte resigned from the throne, the Netherlands was annexed from the French. Finally in 1814, the Netherlands became sovereign and independent.
Belgium rebelled against Netherlands.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Gerhard, Manfred, Wolfgang, Erwin, Otto, Bernhard, Dieter, Franz, Fritz, Heinz.
German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German, Middle Low German vogel, German Vogel ‘bird’, applied as a nickname for a happy person or someone who liked to sing, or a metonymic occupational name for a bird catcher. As a Jewish name it is mainly artificial. The surname of German origin is also found e.g. in Poland, Czechia, and Slovenia, where it was often applied as a translation into German of Slavic cognates like Czech Pták and Polish Ptak or Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ). It is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). Compare Bird , Fogal , Fogel , and Fogle .
Germanized form (translation into German) of Sorbian Ptačk: nickname from an Upper Sorbian diminutive of ptak ‘bird’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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